The future of code search is not regex – 100x faster than ripgrep
neogoose
14 points
5 comments
April 02, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
neogoose
I have open sourced the fastest code search implementation. Comprehensive SDK for both file finder and grep file search that is over 100x faster than ripgrep
kristopolous
I ran across this fascinating tool a few days ago researching embedding models on hugging face. Advertised as "ColGREP Semantic code search for your terminal and your coding agents", I haven't put it in any harness yet but I probably should. https://github.com/lightonai/next-plaid/tree/main/colgrep I've also tried astgrep (also known as sg) but llms really mess up on them. I think you'd need to fine tune. If anyone has cracked that case I'd love to hear about it
schrodinger
How's it work? Embed tokens and use euclidean distance or something?