> allow me to rename a method In Ruby we generally rename a method but alias the old method name to the new one. Flat out removing a method (whether by renamin

> allow me to rename a method In Ruby we generally rename a method but alias the old method name to the new one. Flat out removing a method (whether by renaming or deleting) is nearly unheard of, especially in a legacy codebase. I don't rely on my IDE much at all. I use runtime introspection to discover the objects at play and what they're capable of. If I'm trying to figure out where a method comes from and it's really unclear, I can access the class, call the `method` method with that method name, and get the source location of that method's code. There are lots of other techniques and approaches to working with dynamically-typed languages. I'm mainly familiar with Ruby so that's why I'm talking about it. The key takeaway IMHO isn't that dynamically-typed languages are "missing" features from statically-typed languages, therefore they're somehow "worse". It's that many of the techniques concerning programming in general are simply different. Whether or not that's better or worse in the long run is really subjective by and large. (Personally, I don't like statically-typed languages. I really don't.)