Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to TNT Code Search
A high performance CLI tool for searching through code bases
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. TNT Code Search launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Code Finder▲255The ultimate search engine for GitHub repositories
2024 · codefinder.dev · its alternatives →
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A fully featured full text search engine written in PHP
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Swytchcode▲465Give agents reliable access to 2,000+ APIs w/ durable state
Nov 2025 · swytchcode.com · its alternatives →
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You write a standard solution, just like on LeetCode, and run it through the CLI. It identifies the problem by ID or title, executes your code against local test cases, and shows the result. It currently supports around 1.4k problems and multiple languages, including Python, C++, Rust, Java, Go, TypeScript, Swift, and others. The project is still an MVP. System design, SQL, and concurrency problems are not supported yet, but support for more problem types is planned. Made in Haskell!
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I'd like to invite everyone to try out DontBeEvil.rip, an experimental search engine for developers. tl;dr $ alias rip="curl -G -H 'Accept: text/plain' --url https://dontbeevil.rip/search --data-urlencode " $ rip 'q=Heartbleed bug' DontBeEvil.rip is a year long experiment to see if a small team can build a developer-focused search engine that is self-sustaining on $10 monthly subscriptions. It works by only indexing high-quality resources that are relevant to developers. You won't get useless listicles because we'll never crawl them. Relevant urls are harvested from HN,…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Muse Code▲240Meta’s terminal agent for long-horizon coding
Aug 2026 · research.meta.ai · its alternatives →
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SeekStorm: vector & lexical search - in-process library & multi-tenancy server, in Rust. - SeekStorm/SeekStorm
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · codegrep.com · its alternatives →
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local-first semantic code search engine. Contribute to kantord/SeaGOAT development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Write & test Swift code in your browser
2015 · swiftlang.ng.bluemix.net · its alternatives →
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A tiny "sandbox" to run untrusted code 🏖️. Contribute to craigmulligan/sandy development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I initially built cs (codespelunker) as a way to answer the question, can BM25 relevance search work without building an index? Turns out it can, and so I iterated on the idea, building it into a full CLI tool. Recently I wanted to improve it by adding relevance of tools like Sourcegraph or Zoekt but again without adding an index. cs uses scc https://github.com/boyter/scc to understand the structure of the file on the fly. As such it can filter searches to code, comments or strings. It also applies a weighted BM25 algorithm where matches in actual code rank higher than…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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First HTTP programming language
2025 · httl.dev · its alternatives →
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2019 · metacode.app · its alternatives →
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Shelly is a powerful tool that translates English into commands that can be seamlessly executed in your terminal. You won't have to remember obscure commands anymore.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · zachwill.github.com · its alternatives →
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Query programming languages using natural language!
2020 · codesnippetsearch.net · its alternatives →
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Author here! Some context: I published this 48 hours ago and it was auto-listed on MCPMarket (the MCP tools directory). Got 700+ organic downloads with zero marketing—developers were actively searching for exactly this solution. The "Git Accelerator" optimization story: Initially used a file walker that took 6.6s on Chromium. Profiling showed 90% was filesystem I/O. The fix: git ls-files returns 480k paths in ~200ms. Added smart heuristics for untracked files (only scan dirs <50k files), bringing total to 0.46s. Why this matters: Agents can't wait 10 seconds for search. Sub-500ms makes…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tantivy▲68A full-text, horse-speed search engine library in Rust
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Codebased combines Tree Sitter for code awareness (find functions, data structures, constants, etc. not just lines of code), full-text search using SQLite, and semantic search using OpenAI embeddings + FAISS. Despite being implemented in Python, supporting semantic search, making multiple API calls for embedding and re-ranking, it is faster than ripgrep for runng searches against the Linux kernel (takes ~1 second vs. ~2 seconds, obviously depends on system, temperature, time of day, tidal forces, etc.) Up next: - A Perplexity-like agent for interpreting results, making multiple follow-up…
2024 · codebased.sh · its alternatives →
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A shell script for searching for links on torrent sites - TUVIMEN/torge
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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