Slightly unusual genre --- with this article, I want to try to enact a change in the world. I
believe that there is a missing IDE feature which is:

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The post suggests a new feature for IDEs: folding method bodies by default. This feature would significantly enhance code readability by collapsing less important code (method bodies) and highlighting critical parts (function signatures). The author calls on contributors to editors like VS Code, Neovim, and others to implement this feature using modern tools like Tree-sitter and language servers, making it easier than it was in the past. The author has actively contributed towards making this feature possible but urges further community action to see it fully realized.

A Missing IDE Feature

<p>I would love to see an easy to navigate graph view of code files/classes/methods related to each other. It would make understanding legacy code much more easy.</p>


<p>This sort of feels like a tiling window manager but for code. I quite like the opinionated nature of it.</p>
