TL/DR: I wrote a fast literal string matching library in Go get it here https://github.com/boyter/go-string/ Recently I rebuilt searchcode in Go, as mentioned. While there was a variety of reasons for this one was that performance in the previous Python version was not great. Please note this was mostly due to my own shortcomings and not the language itself. However I have always used searchcode as a test bed for interesting problems, since it gets enough traffic to verify things at scale, an...
