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One big opportunity for IDEs to explore is the code visualization. Especially in languages like Java the abstraction, decomposition, delegation are heavily used
by The_Colonel 6y ago
One big opportunity for IDEs to explore is the code visualization. Especially in languages like Java the abstraction, decomposition, delegation are heavily used for (sometimes) good reasons but at the cost of simplicity, and it's more difficult to see what's really going on (compared to simplified spaghetti).
There have been some weak attempts in IDEs (e.g. auto generated UML), but it's not really useable. Closest seems SourceTrail but that has many issues ...
- mavelikara 6y agoWhen I read the first paragraph of your comment, I thought to myself "SourceTrail seems to be designed for this problem". Reading the second paragraph, it seems you have tried SourceTrail and found it lacking. Can you please elaborate those short comings. I recently became aware of SourceTrail from an HN post few days ago, but have not used it.