hi friends. do you use any tool for modularizing/untangling/refactoring the architecture of the code for your big old applications (especially heavy web apps or mobile apps for performance gains)? I recently learned about CAST Imaging, and came across this video: https://player.vimeo.com/video/496050718 1. have you ever heard of this tool? 2. if yes, why did you use it for? 3. if no, do you know/use other similar tools?

First I’ve heard of it. I’ve used other tools that visualize code as graphs but usually just to take a glance.

1. Have not heard of CAST.

thanks @Luke Persola and @Breck Yunits. github vis is cool. but a more advanced version of it was built by CodeScene a few years ago. check this out.

Very interesting Alex. Had not seen that before. It's significantly slower, but does look pretty powerful. With the GitHub one I had some interesting insights in a minute or two. CodeScene has an onboarding, which I did, but then there's a long wait until you get your first results. And then the results include build artifacts and libs, which are instant to exclude with the GH one, but a bit harder to figure out with CodeScene. I've now updated the configs, and am waiting to run the jobs again. Anyway, it does look promising, and excited to see the results, just a bigger learning curve with slower feedback times when using the app.