Ask HN: Navigating Source Code (especially on large projects)
Posted by thekey 2 days ago
- How much time you spend with navigating source code? - How annoyed you are about that? - What are your strategies to mitigate? - Are there tools you using? - What about polyglot navigation? - How you onboard other people / point them to right locations - with context?
Comments
Comment by stevekemp 1 day ago
LSP services make it trivial to jump to definitions, as well as local cross-references and filesystem views it's just not something that's a concern.
Could I scroll around 5ms faster with a different UI? Probably, but it wouldn't change my habits.
I use grep, emacs, and I don't feel like I have anything that needs mitigation.
Comment by t0duf0du 1 day ago
Comment by kentich 1 day ago
I use Code Mind Map - a Visual Studio / VS Code extension that allows you to add nodes linked to code and jump directly to the linked code on a click. I built it for myself. You can find it at https://codemindmap.com
Comment by firespark 20 hours ago
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