IDE Tips for reading abstracted code

Surely, someone is working on a tool to expand the abstracted code into a flat code - obviously, controlling the level of expansion, i.e. expand functions only from a given list of libs/imports/projects.

My other would-be-amazing-to-have-tool is a tool which records an execution path, like profilers do, and dumps just that code, removing any “branches” that didn’t get executed, so that it could be read and even executed. That would make understanding a complicated code a breeze. This would make debuging simple too in certain situations.

I’m on emacs and there are quite a few different ways to jump around the code abstractions. I can share if there are emacs users here that need it.

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