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tagawa on Oct 3, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (October 2016)

DuckDuckHack (the dev community for DuckDuckGo)

Building Instant Answers for programming languages to make DuckDuckGo the best search engine for developers.

We're just kicking off some new target languages (C, C++, HTML, Java, PHP, R, Ruby) so we hope to make new Instant Answers that can show documentation snippets, lookup libraries and packages, display cheat sheets or interactive tools.

The actual languages we use for programming are primarily Perl and JavaScript. There are many existing Instant Answers to copy/learn from.

Starting point: https://forum.duckduckhack.com/t/duckduckhack-programming-mi...

Apache License v2.0

moollaza on Oct 4, 2016 [–]

FWIW, you can also write the documentation parsers (Fathead type Instant Answers) in Python, and Ruby

For example, here is a parser for the Python docs, written in Python: https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-fathead/blob/mas...

and the same for Ruby: https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-fathead/blob/mas...

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