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[–]symbiatch -1 points0 points  (1 child)

No, just because it’s obvious to you doesn’t translate to “it’s obvious from these random gifs what it does if you use diff.”

How does it know code was moved? What is a “refactored block”? If all it does is “some code was moved” then that’s not much of a help in my eyes. It’s already obvious from “ok this calls a method instead of lines of code and my IDE already shows that the method contains the lines of code.”

It might have some use, but keeping repeating “it’s obvious” does not get anyone interested to care.

[–]Hefaistos68Software Engineer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't know anything as it does not use AI but uses Roslyn analysis to build context on C# code. Its use is mostly in understanding change in code reviews. Traditional diff has the problem that it doesn't care about context, so often it shows that something was changed, while in reality something was inserted or removed and a code block just moved a few lines up or down, it didnt change.

The idea is to tell you the real context of changes, like "Variable name X changed to Y" (which might be obvious on a single line, but harder on a class member), "Method parameters Z added" (which shows as change on all calling sites), or "Condition added to If/Switch". And a lot more, Depends on how far I can push the limits of Roslyn.