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by godelski 478 days ago
I've been surprised that there hasn't been much progress in code tracing. It's incredibly hard to jump into a new code base. Cscope and ctags are still used but uncommon. It's not common to see people use debuggers. I suspect this is a major reason why Python and interpreted languages are so popular. But as code bases have exploded we still haven't gotten much better than where we were over a decade ago. Yeah RAGs can help but I'm not sure are a huge improvement over tags. Maybe realistically regressed, relying more on print statement debugging. When do we improve from gdb, cscope, grep, awk, and find? (I'm aware of the improved version of those but listen carefully if that's what you're jumping to respond with)

So I'm really happy to see a project like this. Well done. Can't wait to see more