Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase?

Re:Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase? by neverminder on Friday June 26, 2015 @12:29PM (#9785778)

Not necessarily. For instance, my colleagues work with a fairly large codebase in java which runs on top of a framework written in scala. When they tried to hook up a debugger it drilled the whole stack top to the bottom, naturally and showed them whole lot of scala code. Problem is, these guys don't now scala, only java.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase? by collyw on Sunday June 28, 2015 @05:19PM (#9795145)

My debugger shows a full stacktrace too. I usually ignore the Django code that's its written on top of and use it in the sections I have written.

I don't find it a hindrance in any way seeing what part of the Django code called my code.

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