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When IntelliJ was young the autocomplete and automated refactoring were massive game changers. It felt like a dawn of a new age. But then release after release
by hinkley 2y ago
When IntelliJ was young the autocomplete and automated refactoring were massive game changers. It felt like a dawn of a new age. But then release after release no new refactorings materialized. I don't know if they hit the Pareto limit or the people responsible moved on to new projects.
I think that's the sort of spot where better tools might be appropriate. I know what I want to do, but it's a mess to do it. I suspect that will be better at facilitating growth instead of stunting it.
- jiggawatts 2y agoHmm… I wonder if there will be a category of LLM-assisted refactoring tools that combine mechanistic transformations with the more flexible capabilities of generative AI. E.g.: update the English text in comments automatically to reflect code structure changes.
- hinkley 2y agoLittle tools like how to pluralize nouns, convert adjectives to verbs (function takes data and arranges it into a response that the adjective applies to), would help a lot with rename refactors.
- esafak 2y agoWhat refactoring do you want IntelliJ to do that it can not?