Tools for understanding large codebase
- by 0tar0gz
Hi!
My whole life I have been programming in simple plain text editor. Lately, I was contemplating about joining an open source project which is fairly large and written in C.
I downloaded the sources, started to look around, read this, forget that...
Then I thought to myself: this can't be true. This is 21st century there must be some tool which would help me to understand the code, perhaps some kind of IDE or "code navigator". What flows from here to where, this typedef struct is just interface to that private type, this function is just #define from above, function called in this file is defined in that file, ... you get the idea.
Dear Stack Overflow, is this 21st century? Is there something like this?