fuzzy
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go library
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How HN took it
4 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.14.
Idea: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful fuzzy matching library and fun project
From 3 comments
I approve of any and all fuzzy matchers. The world would be a better place if every search field was a fuzzy search field. Thanks for the shout out!
forrestthewoods on HNcool stuff!!
anirudh83 on HNThat sounds to me like a great starting point for others to contribute code. :P Can't we all just be happy that someone decided to write a fun project and made it freely…
bacongobbler on HN
Performance suggestions welcomed, runes and allocation tips
From 2 comments
Made a PR to switch to runes for iteration. Runes are canonical in Go for unicode codepoints and also have no memory allocation, so they're wicked fast! More importantly they…
ericpauley on HNIf you want to make it really fast you could steal some ideas from: https://wincent.com/blog/optimization (tales of many years of optimizing a fuzzy search implementation).
wincent on HN
Objections
No tests make it hard to trust in real projects
From 2 comments
Hopefully accurate? You should probably write some tests to ascertain that.
bitwize on HNNo tests makes it impossible to add it to real world projects IMO
yani on HN
Match accuracy is subjective and hard to test
From 1 comment
I've found it hard to write tests (though there are a few here - https://github.com/sahilm/fuzzy/blob/master/fuzzy_test.go ). Match quality is often subjective. Tweaking one…
sahilmuthoo on HN
Requests
Rank results by git commit frequency
From 1 comment
Nice! How do you rank the file names when returning the search results? It'd be cool if you could rank them by factoring in git commit frequency for files, because more…
jokh on HN
Integrate into VSCode workspace symbol search
From 1 comment
Now if only this could be baked into VSCode for workspace-global symbol search. I would then finally ditch WebStorm.
igammarays on HN
Use standard distance metrics like Levenshtein or Jaro-Winkler
From 2 comments
Have you tried out one of the standard 'distance' metrics like Hamming distance or Levenstein distance? This would at least give you an objective measure of success. Whether…
glangdale on HNI made a similar tool and believe that if the author is interested in this route he may prefer the Jaro-Winkler algorithm as it is more highly tailored to names. Likely he rolled…
purple-again on HN
Questions
How does it compare with fzf?
From 1 comment
How does this compare with fzf (https://github.com/junegunn/fzf)?
_-david-_ on HN
How does it compare with fzy?
From 1 comment
The logical follow-up question would be; how does it compare to fzy? :) https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
Rafert on HN
Why do Go projects advertise they are written in Go?
From 1 comment
Why do projects written in Go always advertise they are written in Go?
tdurden on HN
Alternatives named
fzf
From 2 comments
How does this compare with fzf (https://github.com/junegunn/fzf)?
_-david-_ on HNfzf is a tool with a much larger feature set. fuzzy is just a humble library that you can add to your code.
sahilmuthoo on HN
fzy
From 1 comment
The logical follow-up question would be; how does it compare to fzy? :) https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
Rafert on HN
Command-T
From 2 comments
If you want to make it really fast you could steal some ideas from: https://wincent.com/blog/optimization (tales of many years of optimizing a fuzzy search implementation).
wincent on HNI still use and recommend Command-T :-)
derwiki on HN
fuzzyfinder (Python)
From 1 comment
I did a similar library for Python (~3yrs ago). blog: http://blog.amjith.com/fuzzyfinder-in-10-lines-of-python library: https://github.com/amjith/fuzzyfinder I haven't done any…
amjith on HN