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Re:Maybe visual programming is the answer, maybe not by fragmede on Saturday April 25, 2020 @11:11PM (#22984036)
There is an absolute dearth of tools, especially modern ones, in this space, but the tools to generate call graphs have existed for quite a while. Egypt will parse output from gcc and output a dot file for gnuplot/Graphviz. There may also be D3.js support in places.

I agree we need visual tools, especially when trying to maintain a large codebase, but only the largest companies can sponsor development of an in-house tool for their codebase, and many of them won't. Maintaining code isn't sexy and doesn't make for new features to sell.

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