Get Productive on Unfamiliar Source Code
summary
A simple UI change that takes three weeks illustrates that developers spend 50–98% of their time reading code and motivates a practical solution: a standalone cross‑platform indexer that uses Clang LibTooling to extract classes, references and call edges, then presents linked search/code/graph views. Clickable nodes update code and graph, graph shows first‑level dependencies, call paths, inheritance chains and implicit template specializations, and the tool runs offline so projects are browsable immediately.
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