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Re:Ask HN: Why do so few software developers use software vi... by bsvalley on Friday February 17, 2017 @10:38AM (#13668912)
Visualization tools are like daily standups and burndown charts. They only beneficit the management. It's just one extra task for developers that doesn't get the job done. I think they're pretty useful when you first jump into a new piece of code and want to have a quick overview. For people who work on the code everday, it becomes quickly obsolete.
Re:Ask HN: Why do so few software developers use software vi... by nebucnaut on Friday February 17, 2017 @01:35PM (#13670543)
I agree that you don't need visualization if you already know the code and the internal references. But even people who work on a code base every day cannot stay on top of every feature or refactoring of their coworkers while being productive theirselfs. I think that in bigger teams reading unknown source code continues to be part of the job ;)