They are a monopoly protected by patents. Completely unamerican philosophically.

Because humans are social creatures?

Search is really useful for finding error messages’ origin as well as to find random example usages of APIs that have less than stellar documentation. The nice thing about GH search is that it allows many different facets like language and is pretty flexible by allowing exact search terms. Of course the corpus size helps as well.

Unfortunately none has quite as good of a search engine. Do any actually have social features like friends and feeds?

It might even, gasp, offer solutions.

Even therapists are suffering these days. It’s just more challenging than it’s ever been to gaslight clients into believing their concerns about the world aren’t objectively true and instead the symptom of an internal struggle.