Source Code Visualization

A family of tools to explore big or complex codebases.

Source Code is rarely clean

The problem is that when we are facing a big codebase which we don't know, it would be great if every project was split well into modules, had good documentation, a lot of tests, and its functions and variables were named accordingly with the domain entities, but this is not always true.

All Languages Supported

This is possible by a simple static analyzer that identifies Code Blocks and an identifier, what in most cases are functions and its name. The basic analyzer relies on the fact that developers split Code Blocks by blank lines and use appropriate indentation. Looset works with any language. This is why it's perfect to be used in projects that mix HTML, CSS, Javascript, C#, Java, Clojure, Go, Rust, Bash, R, Ruby, Swifty, SQL, Kotlin, Lua, Scala, VBA, Python, Haskell, Cobol, Lolcode, etc.

Developer time

Code takes time to understand. A StackOverflow survey showed that more than 70% of experient software developers are expected to take more than a month to become productive in a new project.

On average, developers spend only 5% of their time writing and editing code, more than 80% of the time is spent on understanding and navigation (XIA, 2018).

Pie chart: Less than a month 30%, One to three months 44.70%, Three to six months 17.40%, Six to nine months 5.10%, Nine months to a year 1.70%, More than a year 1.20%.

Looset Diagram

Visualize how your whole system is affected when doing specific changes;

Improve communication by showing how the product evolved over time;

Estimate how long tasks will take by understanding their complexity.

Making sense of huge projects

Looset Diagram helps you to understand the code you work with by giving more than just colored text in an editor and showing a graph of call references.

It automatically generates graph diagrams, where each Code Block is a node, and a connection is created when a Code Block references another Code Block. When a folder is collapsed all its Code Blocks get hidden inside the folder and their connections start to point to the folder node, acting as a black box. It's simple to explain and beautiful to see.

Looset Code

Looset Code helps developers who want to walk through the codebase efficiently by avoiding managing several opened files and showing Code Blocks they are working on, simultaneously, in one screen.

Code Blocks from different files in one screen.

Yellow warning when docstring and code get out of sync.

No more out of date documentation

See when documentation and code get out of sync: The last commit date is shown both to the Code Block and its docstring, so developers can instantly compare it to be sure they can trust the information.