@thomasfuchs I have been programming in cloud and large distributed systems for, at this point, two thirds of my career.

On a whim, I looked up two jobs at other companies with very similar technical needs to my own.

Each of them is using a family of tools I have never heard of before to do the same job.

Each are using different tools from each other.

You'd better believe I'm leaping into the machine that knows how to build analogies between them. Because I don't want to be rendered less useful by the churn. And not only can I not stop the churn... I probably shouldn't. The solution isn't to shut down the bazaar.

But the bazaar encourages diversity at the expense of simplicity.

@thomasfuchs absolutely. I sob a bit internally thinking of the IDEs, how little they actually did to help you navigate a codebase, always fovused on writing. Now that ship seems to have sailed, at least for now.

@flq @thomasfuchs The one thing I like about JetBrains’ IDEs is that they’ll index the entire project, all the dependencies, and the whole standard library, so I can Ctrl-] on basically anything and jump straight to the code that defines it.

@mathew @thomasfuchs yeah, exactly. But what about, I don’t know, temporal canvases where I can drop methods and see where they call into? I like their IDEs, but when it comes to reading code, I think a lot more could be done.

@flq @thomasfuchs Yeah, the diagram-generating features sounded good but were disappointing. I think part of the problem there is the sheer complexity of the call graph in any large project.