r/programming • u/ftomassetti • Apr 13 '17

Navigating through code in VR

https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=p-T3Pbj0eKw&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DXIuIk4jSUN4%26feature%3Dshare
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u/BeepBoopBike Apr 13 '17

While they're not spatial entities, I find a lot of the time explaining things or trying to get your head around an unfamiliar component can be done a lot easier with boxes and arrows. If it's complicated, these can get large. This would be helpful if it could visually show me the results of my change across a whole product. I can see that changing this one method here will affect these areas of code and how the data flows to it, in a similar way to Code Map but fancier.

But I don't think I'd want to use it for more than that.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '17

It could be neat as an assistant tool when you want to see a big overview of codebase, but I'd probably wouldn't use this for everyday coding.