The author uses JavaScript and Python as examples. So I presume they have (most?) experience with dynamic languages. In static languages, greppability is hardl

The author uses JavaScript and Python as examples. So I presume they have (most?) experience with dynamic languages. In static languages, greppability is hardly as much as a factor. Especially with the availability of LSPs and other such tools nowadays. When I write rust, or Java, I hardly grep, I "go to usages" or "go to definition", "rename symbol" and so on. Similar, but not to that extent, with typescript. But when coding in Javascript, Ruby or Python, no matter how fancy or language-focused an IDE is, I'll be grepping a lot. Decades of Ruby and Rails "black magic" taught me to grep for partial patterns like the author shows, too. Or to just run the code-path entirely (through tests) because the table-definition of the database will change the available methods and behaviour of the code. Yes. I know. An LSP (or linter, or checker) can only do so much when the available code, methods, classes, behaviour can be changed or added at runtime.