Re:Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland termi...
by kaba0 on Sunday September 24, 2023 @12:53PM
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> Maybe I don’t need my editor to “understand the entire project”
With all due respect, I don’t think you have seen the monstrosities project can grow into over multiple years and big teams. Not everything is at the scope of, say, Foot - but even this pushes the boundaries of human understanding without tools to aid.
Maybe I don’t need my editor to “understand the entire project” because the code I work on is modular and self contained enough that it doesn’t matter.
When I need a big refactor, tests are usually there to help.
Of course, when you are working on a code base full of AbstractAutowiredFactoryBeanFactories the yea of course you are going to need some more involved tooling, because it’s impossible for a human to read.