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Re:How do you visualize code? by holografix on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @06:00PM (#29987369)
I’m not a professional software dev so apply many grains of salt.

I code with pen and paper beside me, specially when doing anything that involves another thread or these days a go-routine.

Drawing boxes and lines to symbolise go-routines and channels.

The hardest thing for me about software is understanding a large code base. Often I struggle to even understand where the “entry point” is, let alone the whole thing.

A viz tool that would sequentially build a function/module/file call walkthrough the code would be awesome. Bonus points if it can limit the depth so dependencies are not traversed etc

Edit: posted too soon by accident.

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