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Alex Gleason 🐍🚬 | 4 days ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +3 
 I am at the point in my career where I am rewriting huge amounts of JavaScript code by writing scripts that do crazy find-and-replace logic of my source code instead of doing it by hand. Maybe I could be the next Evan You.
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the axiom | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 can't AI do that? sounds like an ideal job for them
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Jimmy Bond | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Not reliably enough to count on it. And probably not for something at the scale that Alex would be working on.
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Jimmy Bond | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 What is your IDE?
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Alex Gleason 🐍🚬 | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 VSCodium. I prefer to use common tools.
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Jimmy Bond | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yea, fair enough.

I frequently use an x200, so I needed to figure out something more lightweight. Also, if I wasn't able to use vim, I would never write anything. NVChad is perfect for me. I can't imagine a faster workflow.
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namosca | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 This automated open refactoring might help:

https://docs.openrewrite.org/

OpenRewrite is an automated refactoring ecosystem for source code, enabling developers to effectively eliminate technical debt within their repositories.

It consists of an auto-refactoring engine that runs prepackaged, open-source refactoring recipes for common framework migrations, security fixes, and stylistic consistency tasks – reducing your coding effort from hours or days to minutes. Build tool plugins like the OpenRewrite Gradle plugin and the OpenRewrite Maven plugin help you run these recipes on one repository at a time.

While the original focus was on the Java language, the OpenRewrite community is continuously expanding language and framework coverage. Thousands of great individuals and teams are working together to make software seamless to update and continuously secure.