Hawkeye – local code search for MS/Linux, fast 500k+ file codebase

Name: Hawkeye – local code search for MS/Linux, fast 500k+ file codebase
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Author: hawkeye_zarag

by hawkeye_zarag·Jun 29, 2026·2 points·0 comments

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AI Analysis

●MidSlick

Fast local code search when ripgrep and IDE search already handle this well.

Strengths

•Focused replace feature filters results before applying bulk replacements across projects.
•Perforce integration supports game development workflows that git-based tools ignore.

Weaknesses

•Code search is saturated with ripgrep, Sourcegraph, and built-in IDE search already solving this.
•No clear technical differentiation explaining how it beats existing grep alternatives.

Post Description

We built Hawkeye because grep, IDE, TC search broke down on our internal codebase (~500k files). Every "find all references" took long enough to break focus — now with AI agents spending more time re-grepping the same files than actually writing code.