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Python has jump to definition too.

• adamnemecek 9y ago
  You mean there’s an ide with that feature? It’s never as good as with any statically type language.
  • hwayne 9y ago
    Have you tried it? It's usually pretty good for Python.
    • steelbird 9y ago
      Which IDE?
      • hwayne 9y ago
        PyCharm and VSCode are both pretty good.
  • markbnj 9y ago
    Sublime Text has this feature on hover, but I am fairly certain it is based on text search of the modules in the python path.
• catnaroek 9y ago
  Does it work in the presence and (ab)use of dynamic features? (e.g., when you have lots of decorated functions) Or is it just a best effort thing? (i.e., only works when your code would actually be expressible in a static way)
  • fulafel 9y ago
    This is a continuum... in many statically typed languages there are regularly used paths that lead outside the realm of the language-defined type system as well. Consider dynamic class loading in Java, dlopen / reinterpret_cast in C++ etc.
    • catnaroek 9y ago
      > This is a continuum. It is not. A language feature is either amenable to static analysis (not necessarily type checking) or it is not. > Consider dynamic class loading in Java, dlopen / reinterpret_cast in C++ etc. This actually emphasizes my point. Features that are not amenable to static analysis are problematic for tooling.