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Re: Ask HN: How to dive into large codebase?

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Post by halpme » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 7:54 PM UTC

gjvc wrote: post #2

This is one scenario that even the most die-hard vim/ctags ninja would benefit from using something like a JetBrains-level IDE to navigate the class hierarchies.

I have the best of both worlds: Eclipse IDE with a vim plugin (vrapper). Not sure why people choose strictly one of the two.

Re: Ask HN: How to dive into large codebase?

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Post by runT1ME » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 11:20 PM UTC

>Are there any tutorials,books or other materials teaching about how to dive,familiarize,read,understand and contribute to large codebases efficiently?

No, but I would say this is where you really want to know your tools. Be it a debugger so you can step through a codebase to find a problem, using an IDE to inspect parts/jump around, CTAGS/Grep for Vim/Emacs users, etc.

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