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Are there IDE's that track lines of code edited/added per hour, etc?

• evoxed 15y ago
  The probability of such a program being developed is diminished by how depressing its results would likely be to its own author. It would be interesting, though, wouldn't it... now you've got me thinking.
• apu 15y ago
  I remember someone doing an experiment saving git branches every time he saved in his editor, which would give you some estimate into this: http://www.jukie.net/bart/blog/save-everything-with-git-wip http://www.jukie.net/bart/blog/save-everything-with-git-wip But it doesn't look like he describes the result of this experiment.
• bcjordan 15y ago
  The folks at cloud9 IDE or Codecademy are in a good position to collect and expose patterns in programming efficiency. On one's own, simply using a VCS with a high enough commit frequency would let you infer something about lines added per hour. Perhaps an editor's undo stack could also be committed to store finer-grained metrics. With detailed metrics and impressive data analysis there's the opportunity to uncover useful insights into how we debug and learn. That's probably more than a weekend project, but worth it in potential future payout IMO.
  • obtu 15y ago
    Turns out I'm already collecting this data… Vim has recently added a persistent undo feature (enable by setting 'undodir' and 'undofile'; 'undolevel' can also be raised from the default 1000); there is a Gundo plugin that displays the undo tree like a DVCS commit graph.
• ramblerman 15y ago
  zed shaw's peepcode one on one goes into something similar. By hooking into the make command, he builds up a nice stats database of similar information