Don't get me wrong - there are definitely some C/C++ codebases where the macros have gotten way out of hand. But in general, they're both typed - which helps S

Don't get me wrong - there are definitely some C/C++ codebases where the macros have gotten way out of hand. But in general, they're both typed - which helps SO freaking much. Ex: C doesn't have methods, but if you store most of your data in structs then you can easily do two things: 1) find all the places where the header defining that struct is included 2) Do a global search for the struct name Both will present you with a nice list of places that data is used, and show the functions that accept it as an argument. Where as with Ruby - I basically have to use RubyMine to get anything even sort of working, and even then it chugs along very slowly trying to do it. Solargraph in VSCode doesn't really work at all (at least 50% of the time it finds no definition for me) and just using a basic editor is a nightmare. Sometimes you can do a global find for "def [classname]" but that only gives you the definition, not any of the places that use/modify it. Basically - Ruby is one of the few languages where I feel like global search just doesn't work well, and it also eschews import/require/include statements when used in Rails. It's just a tangled mess, and there's NO way to unwind it without tooling, and even the tooling struggles (RubyMine is a guaranteed way to get my fans running at full speed for large projects, and it's the best I've used).