I like long simple functions because it makes them easy to reason about when debugging.
Rarely does having more functions solve “does this do what I expect.”
Rarely does having more functions solve “does this do what I expect.”
With a full-featured language specific IDE, it is very easy to navigate through even complicated spaghetti. It makes debugging call traces simple, with a GUI.
However, many other file viewers and editors make this much more complicated, and it can be frustrating to follow code that is making heavy use of modularization.
If you are grepping your way through a deeply modular code base it can quickly become difficult to keep track of anything.
If you need a fancy IDE to navigate around code in order to understand it, that might be crappy or poorly organized code.
Not a dig at nice IDEs, just code that requires one to navigate and understand.
> Not a dig at nice IDEs, just code that requires one to navigate and understand
A nice IDE helps you reason about code, no matter what the underlying architecture is. That is why there is a market for them.