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Comment by divan

Hey, great stuff, but my question is whether produced visualization/graph is similar to how would you "see" the code in your head yourself?

The problem of familiarizing/navigating textual codebase is embarrassingly unsolved, and I was exploring this in the post "Rethinking visual programming with Go" [1], but yet my main issue with visualization tools is that they offer intermediate representation of the code, which still has to be "decoded" into proper mental map.

I see the future of these visualizaton approaches in AR/VR. Code visualization should match mental map visualization as much as possible, and the better we can use spatial tools for representation the better the result.

[1] https://divan.dev/posts/visual_programming_go/

parent divan 6 years ago

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