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by hu3 484 days ago
This is 2025.

If you can't jump to your own code implementation without having to search for strings, your tech sucks.

And most of your message doesn't even apply. How would I Google or read the manual for my own code?

We're talking about different things it seems.

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With a 1980's technology out of Xerox PARC, it is called IDE.
Exactly. Although from the reply I got above it seems to be alien tech to some.
There was a 'may' in my original comment. It is metaprogramming, so you can't see every usage automatically even with "alien tech" like IDEs, unlike in case of a normal type.

Especially that we are not even talking about own code, but third-party annotations with its third-party consumers. Also, grepping is a pretty standard term, it doesn't necessarily mean literal CLI grep, but go on with your advanced tooling as if no one else would be familiar with an IDE.