RE: Program is a model There are some more advanced refactoring tools now available. These tools enable you to write code to detect bad code patterns and even

RE: Program is a model There are some more advanced refactoring tools now available. These tools enable you to write code to detect bad code patterns and even automatically fix them. You can use them to write one-off transformations of code too. Rust has Dylint [1] and C# has Roslyn Analyzers [2]. Facebook has tooling [3] that helps writing CodeMods, enabling authors to generate changes for thousands of files at a time. The thing I really would like to see is a smarter CI system. Caching of build outputs, so you don't have to rebuild the world from scratch every time. Distributed execution of tests and compilation, so you are not bottle-necked by one machine. Something that keeps track of which tests are flaky and which are broken on master, so you don't have to diagnose spurious build failures. Something that only runs the test that transitively depend on the code you change. Automatic bisecting of errors to the offending commit. [1] https://github.com/trailofbits/dylint https://github.com/trailofbits/dylint [2] https://docs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/code-quality/roslyn-analyzers-overview https://docs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/code-quality/roslyn-... [3] one example: https://github.com/facebook/jscodeshift https://github.com/facebook/jscodeshift