Comment by dataflow

> Relying on features like Ctrl+Click to find where things are located worries me. Why? Because it can mask structural flaws in the codebase. If we can't intuitively figure out where something belongs, that’s a sign the codebase lacks structure—and that should motivate us to refactor it.

This argument sounds nice in theory but it seems to have some serious fundamental flaws w.r.t. "how do you code without an LSP":

- What do you do about dependent names? i.e. names that resolve to something different based on various conditions in the code? They might be defined in multiple places conditionally, their default definitions might be overridden for particular cases (and you'd have no idea if you just saw the default definition - think "template specialization" if you write C++), they might have different definitions on different platforms... do you seriously want to explore the entire codebase manually with all the compiler flags to figure out what something resolves to?

- What do you do about code that you can't refactor? Like third party code?

- Not every question the IDE/LSP answers is of the form "where does this belong". What do you do about things that aren't names? Like say, there's a quantity calculated at compile time and want to know its value? I'm not talking Math.PI here, I'm talking about something like STACK_BUFFER_SIZE. It can easily be something like (sizeof(T) + sizeof(U) * 4) / sizeof(void*). How much of your life do you want to spend simulating the compiler in your brain vs. having it just tell you what it already knows?

etc.