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I seem to have a fascination with code visualization and exploration. Looking at a complex codebase through a variety of perspectives can have a lot of utility. I like the heatmap a lot but that's only of statistical benefit and less exploratory.

I created a rudimentary graphical ruby programming environment https://x.com/RussTheMagic/status/1809091784946921670 however I realized similar conclusions of this article; while i could do lazy evals, and method parameters and all sorts of song and dance... that's not actually what I needed - which was a way to better work with and tinker with code. I've used irb/pry extensively for this, but it's always had it's limitations there.

I wanted to be able to see what the result of the ruby code was as it was executed line by line and be able to explore the return values, so I made another version which is a realtime, visual irb called revirb https://x.com/RussTheMagic/status/1811427507784315309



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