Some kind of vulnerability tracker for dependencies. You type `gradle somecommand` and it will walk the dependency graph, incl all transient ones, and show you which dependencies currently have an active vulnerability affecting them and the version that fixes it.
Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?
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#42I don't know if this exists or not, but it's something I've always wanted. I love and hate unit testing. It's a fantastic idea that I've never seen successfully implemented in practice, mostly because the tests invariably fall by the wayside. At the very least, it's a burden to support them. I'd love a tool that would observe my code during runtime - capturing all inputs and outputs from every function, as well as th…
After execution, I can scroll through a tree of called functions and convert it into permanent "implementation documentation" (saved in a document I can annotate eg. with data flow, and edited when the code itself changes), helping me understand both the structure and dynamic control flow of code I'm learning or relearning after months of absence. I currently do this manually in Google Doc bullets, in order to make sense of legacy code whose control flow is fragmented into many function calls I must piece together mentally (as described in http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm...), and as a starting point for restructuring types and function graphs.
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#44I don't know if this exists or not, but it's something I've always wanted. I love and hate unit testing. It's a fantastic idea that I've never seen successfully implemented in practice, mostly because the tests invariably fall by the wayside. At the very least, it's a burden to support them. I'd love a tool that would observe my code during runtime - capturing all inputs and outputs from every function, as well as th…
Suture is geared towards refactoring, so it doesn't do it for every function at once, and instead you have to specify methods manually.
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#45It takes space and diatracts a bit.
Bonus points if I could have a, for example "# /assertion_func" comment that would label a whole function to be folded together with asserts.
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#46I'm not sure how useful this would be, but I'd like to try it.
Re: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?
#47I don't know if this exists or not, but it's something I've always wanted. I love and hate unit testing. It's a fantastic idea that I've never seen successfully implemented in practice, mostly because the tests invariably fall by the wayside. At the very least, it's a burden to support them. I'd love a tool that would observe my code during runtime - capturing all inputs and outputs from every function, as well as th…
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#48Dunno dog. I'm a developer. If a tool is missing then I just build it for myself. I'm happy with this arrangement.
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#49- A build system / package manager like Nix [1] but with a better user experience / more straightforward command-line tooling. - A dependently typed programming language like Coq [2] (or Agda, Idris, Lean, etc.) that is sufficiently approachable to gain enough mindshare that companies start adopting it for mission-critical work. - A version control system which scales to petabytes or more. Something that I could put…
Working on it :)
> - A version control system which scales to petabytes or more. Something that I could put large video files in without thinking twice about it. Something a large company could use for their monorepo—or even their data warehouse.
https://github.com/facebookexperimental/eden
> A note-taking tool that allows me to organize notes in a graph with links between them
Re: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?
#50Web Dev is only a distant area of expertise of mine. I find learning new things here not complicated, but a bit tedious.
What I'd like is to be able to scan through html files faster. And what hinders me the most, in terms of reading others' code now, is figuring which html classes are custom-declared, and which belong to a design framework, like bootstrap or tailwind.
Being able to tell at skim-speed would be awesome.