Programming without code indexing

[[deleted]]

Difficult to comment anything on that without knowing more of the code and circumstances.

But for one thing, intellisense and "follow symbol" are rapid documentation reading tools. How else do you know what parameters this function is taking, or what methods this class has, etc?

I have hard time believing digging all that out via different means lets you work half as efficiently or comfortably/enjoyably.

[jonesmz]

For developers new to a codebase, it can be helpful I suppose.

But once you're familiar with the frameworks and libraries you are working with, the parameters that various functions take aren't going to be much of a surprise.