[namibj]

Who'd have thought advanced semantic navigation and search as e.g. in the IDEA (Jetbrains) family of IDEs with framework awareness helps not just humans?

Also note it's "structural search (and replace)" that let's you: - essentially regex against the semantically annotated AST, which gives you things like match on function calls that are given an (otherwise arbitrary) object that implements some particular interface (be that interface nominally typed as in Java, or structurally typed as in TypeScript). - or fancier, database queries with a join condition equality matching a string type, that are invoked from inside a loop, with another database query outside and in front of that very loop.

Personally I hated when due to a poorly debated user wish, they turned off auto indenting in full file column space for multi-line inline SQL in PHP, not only forcing a massive commit that messes up `git blame`, but also just annoyingly throwing the outer PHP context's indentation level away causing the SQL to be waaay too far left.