For C/C++ code, you can already do refactoring using clang-tidy scripts [0], or even can write custom linters using libtooling [1] and leverage the AST Matchers

For C/C++ code, you can already do refactoring using clang-tidy scripts [0], or even can write custom linters using libtooling [1] and leverage the AST Matchers [2] which work at the AST level. All that's needed is a compile_commands.json file which can be easily generated via most build systems, or you can use Bear [3]/some other tool (or write a script that logs all syscalls and generate it yourself). [0] https://releases.llvm.org/12.0.0/tools/clang/tools/extra/docs/clang-tidy/index.html https://releases.llvm.org/12.0.0/tools/clang/tools/extra/doc... [1] https://releases.llvm.org/12.0.0/tools/clang/docs/LibTooling.html https://releases.llvm.org/12.0.0/tools/clang/docs/LibTooling... [2] https://releases.llvm.org/12.0.0/tools/clang/docs/LibASTMatchers.html https://releases.llvm.org/12.0.0/tools/clang/docs/LibASTMatc... [3] https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear