Hey,
I’m exploring the idea of a webpage where you can paste a function (or a block of code) in any programming language, and it outputs a list of specific, actionable refactoring suggestions - things like:
- Unnecessary complexity
- Poor naming conventions
- Duplicated logic
- Violations of language-specific best practices
- Readability issues
The goal is to help developers quickly spot areas for improvement and make their code cleaner, more maintainable, and easier to understand.
Questions for you:
- Would you use such a tool? Why or why not?
- What features would make it important for you? (e.g., integration with GitHub, support for obscure languages, explanations for each suggestion, etc.)
- Are you ready to pay for a tool like this (for example, paying for access to advanced checks or being able to tune checks for your programming style)?
- Are there existing tools you love (or hate) that do something similar?
Make an open source project for this. I’d love something like this for neovim. Not that I ever have any novel code to leak but I still find it odd that we just invite businesses to just spy on our code.