I had this realisation too, after spending countless hours searching the code bases with regexes to try to extract valuable information.
Right now we have ide's that provide rich language support but they only expose extremely basic traversals over language symbols, for example I can't semantically query for all the deprecated classes in a particular package that have 3 or more instances.
Right now we have to resort to grep and other text finding tool's to achieve the same functionality which is for all reasons not efficient or reliable.
Once we can semantically query our code bases using a rich expressive language then we could visualise the system and gain richer understanding.
Some of these idea's are being implemented in
https://gtoolkit.com/, it's a fantastic tool built on one simple yet powerful idea that each object can be represented in multiple forms not just syntactic code.
Right now we have ide's that provide rich language support but they only expose extremely basic traversals over language symbols, for example I can't semantically query for all the deprecated classes in a particular package that have 3 or more instances.
Right now we have to resort to grep and other text finding tool's to achieve the same functionality which is for all reasons not efficient or reliable.
Once we can semantically query our code bases using a rich expressive language then we could visualise the system and gain richer understanding.
Some of these idea's are being implemented in https://gtoolkit.com/, it's a fantastic tool built on one simple yet powerful idea that each object can be represented in multiple forms not just syntactic code.