Journal entry for January 27, 2024

Thought: IDE should “quick expand” short definitions

A common complaint about code reuse is something like “I prefer things to be written out so that I can see what it does”. And, while I’m in the moral “always abstract when you see a pattern” camp, it is annoying to have to learn what every little definition does. Maybe a development environment could solve this problem for small definitions by showing the shorter code (like a function name), along with the expanded definition, or do the expansion on cursor hover.