Re:Show HN: Visualize Data Structures in VS Code
by MikeSchurman on Saturday August 29, 2020 @11:37AM
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I'm a bit late to the party here, but I need to say that posts like this are why I keep coming back to hacker news.
Automatic visualization of data is such a powerful and underutilized tool in many disciplines, especially ours. A picture is worth 1000 words, and the same could be said for many styles of graphics.
I often find myself writing adhoc/bespoke visualizations for complex data, and the change in perspective can make an intractable problem almost easy, especially for more visual thinkers (so much so that I often wonder why I needed a graphic in the first place?!). To have this right in the debugger is an order of magnitude improvement and I'm excited about this tool, and I hope I find some time soon to learn it.
I know tools with aspects of this exist (ddd, etc..), but since vscode is my current editor of choice, I'm quite excited about this. Great job!
Automatic visualization of data is such a powerful and underutilized tool in many disciplines, especially ours. A picture is worth 1000 words, and the same could be said for many styles of graphics.
I often find myself writing adhoc/bespoke visualizations for complex data, and the change in perspective can make an intractable problem almost easy, especially for more visual thinkers (so much so that I often wonder why I needed a graphic in the first place?!). To have this right in the debugger is an order of magnitude improvement and I'm excited about this tool, and I hope I find some time soon to learn it.
I know tools with aspects of this exist (ddd, etc..), but since vscode is my current editor of choice, I'm quite excited about this. Great job!