Someone help me understand what I'm missing. It sounds like in this article Steve Yegge is describing a tool like Atlassian Fisheye or grepcode and talking about it like it doesn't exist. These tools are out there. I don't see what's missing.
https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:v8/...
Click on the "ToBoolean" function, it brings up all call sites across all Chromium projects.
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