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Pretty much this. A lot of the work would have been roughly equivalent to trying to de-minify some JS. With a modern IDE the task would have been a lot easier

Pretty much this. A lot of the work would have been roughly equivalent to trying to de-minify some JS. With a modern IDE the task would have been a lot easier. I don’t know if Eclipse had refactoring assistance built into back then, but if it did, I’d never even heard of the idea. I was sitting on not much more than a year of programming experience at the time.

grujicd 5y ago
Eclipse had refactoring from the start. It was pretty advanced IDE for the time.
- pjmlp 5y ago
  It had to be, given that it was basically Visual Age for Smalltalk rewritten in Java. Hence why it had, and still keeps it, a Smalltalk like code navigation.