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Im as shocked as you are that people rely on textual representations and ignore all the powerful tooling available to them for understanding code. Every editor
by maccard 2y ago
Im as shocked as you are that people rely on textual representations and ignore all the powerful tooling available to them for understanding code.
Every editor I use has tools that will provide this information in a single keystroke, macro or cluck. If you actively choose to avoid using tools to read code, I shouldn’t suffer for it.
- mgaunard 2y agoif you need tools it just means the code is sub-par
- maccard 2y agoGrep is a tool. But if I grep foo, it can’t tell me the difference between a function called foo, a variable called foo, or any other types that may have a foo, or a comment with foo in it. Even vscode can do “show me all uses of foo” in a single click, and be perfectly correct,
- mgaunard 2y agoIt's not perfectly correct, and that actually what makes it dangerous.
- orf 2y agoThat take is so comically nonsensical I question why you’d even contribute it. I have no doubt you read and write code without any tools.