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Re:Generating a Java program with 90% less code by erik_seaberg on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @01:37PM (#21705381)
Boilerplate is the enemy. IDEs can easily write piles of it, but offer very little help reading any of it, and editing it is a trap. Anything that can be generated behind the scenes, compiled, and thrown away should be.
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Re:Generating a Java program with 90% less code by TeMPOraL on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @01:42PM (#21705452)
Indeed, IDEs are still oriented towards writing code, not reading it. I'm yet to find a good tool that would help with exploring and familiarizing yourself with a large codebase. Soucetrail comes the closest, but it has like 5% of the features I'd like to see in it.

(My dream code exploring tool would be a cross between an IDE and a tablet&pen friendly PDF reader. I should be able to navigate through files using all the semantics-aware IDE goodies, the tool should also understand version control, but it should also be able to generate and manipulate structural graphs (as in, boxes and arrows), as well as let me highlight, draw and freehand over the code.)

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Re:Generating a Java program with 90% less code by LameRubberDucky on Thursday December 05, 2019 @03:09PM (#21715962)
UML?
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