This questions is about tools that will enable me to learn a big code base. I have always worked on my own and without any collaborators. It has meant that I’ve never had to learn the source of a code base written by someone else. I expect this is a typical challenge for professional programmers, a…

For the first, Cthulhu.jl is really good. It is like @edit but gives you a repl that lets you explore the entire call graph (as well as track down performance issues like type instabilities).

[image] Way to plot graph of codebase? (i.e. function circles and dependency arrows) General Usage Yeah, TreeView isn’t quite what you want, but it’s the closest thing I could think of at the time. Maybe just using the functionality in Base.Profile to build the call graph…

I would recommend using debugging to work out what code does, as you can track the value of variables as it executes and go as deep/shallow as you like. Start with finding an example in the docs of common usage and then use @enter before calling a function (available in VS code Julia REPL) and you …

This is a good way of looking at the codebase graph: FinEtools.jl/diagram.svg at main · PetrKryslUCSD/FinEtools.jl · GitHub It can be generated with a workflow described here: GitHub - githubocto/repo-visualizer

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