Comment by akshaysg | Hacker News Reader

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You made some good points!

We do show arrows between related objects (if you CMD+click on symbols, or use the floating toolbar to zoom into a function) and you can traverse the codebase like a graph. Do you feel like that is insufficient? If so, what would you prefer?

Curious about "then zoom out to see all the files arranged together". You can zoom using CMD/CTRL + scrolling. Is this what you want?

Our intent is to go more in the direction of "like a visual programming language or a notebook, with sockets and connectors" and make editing/refactoring easier.

RE AI: that's valid, but we do use it to cut the tedium out of finding the right interface/class to add a method/function to.

Re: AI

If you’ve used any canvas style app you’ll fully appreciate that zooming out and then zooming back in is almost without fail the way people navigate.

Even visual code editors. You’ve used the unreal blueprint editor right?

They do not use search.

Search is for finding canvases not for navigating around them.

Jumping between symbols with a command is what existing editors do. You’re doing your excellent work a disservice by sticking to ways of interacting you can already do in existing editors.

You can just use a normal editor for that.

(The same goes for any kind of AI symbol search; it is maybe valuable, but why would you not just have it an an extension in an existing editor? It’s like the rabbit; why was it not just an android app? -> no reason. The AI in it was not meaningfully linked to the functionality of the device)

Re: zoom out.

Ohhhh… that’s lovely. That’s what I wanted. You should put that in your demo.

I tried scrolling and cmd-+ but that zooms the entire ui.

That’s a super power. You should make it more obvious you can do that.

Oof I did not realize how undiscoverable zooming is.

Thank you for your feedback! It'll help us iterate/improve the product. Please let us know if you have any more!

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