Have you used Understand to fix a tricky bug, untangle legacy code, speed up onboarding, or catch something your team would’ve missed? We’d love to hear about it! Real stories help us shape future features - and we might even highlight yours (with permission, of course). 👉
Quick tip: hover over any entity in #Understand for an instant summary. Name, type, parameters, return type - whatever's relevant to that entity, right there without clicking anything. Bonus tip: if an AI overview has been generated for it, you'll see that too. Fast context,
Your codebase. Your rules. 🛠️ Understand 8.0's enhanced #Python API makes it easier than ever to build custom integrations, automate your workflows, and extend #Understand to fit exactly how your team works - not the other way around. Find the docs here: docs.scitools.com/manuals/python…
Your VHDL deserves better tooling.#Understand now supports #VHDL 2008 - explore architectures, trace dependencies, and navigate complex FPGA projects with the same depth you'd expect from any modern #IDE. 🔍 Hardware logic is still logic. Analyze it like it. Try Understand
AI explains your code. Understand proves it. 🔍 LLMs are probabilistic - they can hallucinate relationships and miss edge cases. Understand parses your code deterministically, so "who calls this?" and "what breaks if I change this?" always have exact answers. The best teams use
Favorites saved entities. Bookmarks saved locations. Now they live in one widget.#Understand 8.0 merges both so you can track the functions you care about AND the exact lines you keep coming back to - all in one place. Check it out under View -> Favorites / Bookmarks. Read
🔬 Code Smell of the Week: The God Function We've all inherited one. 350 lines. 14 parameters. Handles validation, discounts, tax, shipping, fraud detection, and loyalty points - all in a single function. We pulled this one up in #Understand's control flow graph and the
Go beyond #Understand's built-in metrics export 📊 In our latest video, we show you how to use the Python API to export metrics for specific entity kinds - classes, functions, whatever you need. Watch the full walkthrough from GUI basics to writing an API script:
Real talk from #Understand user Marty Turner 🗣️ "I would not be able to learn code as quickly without Understand." Older codebases. Open source. Proprietary. Understand's dependency graphs show you how everything connects - so you spend less time guessing and more time
Coupling and cohesion are two fundamental concepts in software design that directly impact how maintainable your codebase is. 🔗 Coupling measures how much modules depend on each other. High coupling means changes ripple unpredictably. 🧱 Cohesion measures how focused a
What if a "messy" graph could actually reveal hidden structure in your code? 🍝 In our latest video, we break down a plugin that visualizes how functions and objects connect inside a class - and show how it spots cohesion issues, key functions, and utility patterns at a glance.
Ever build the perfect graph in Understand's GUI and wish you could recreate it in a script? You can! Hit the API command button on any graph, and #Understand hands you the exact code to reproduce it in a custom plugin. No guesswork, no digging through docs - just build what you
Have you used #Understand to fix a tricky bug, untangle legacy code, speed up onboarding, or catch something your team would’ve missed? We’d love to hear about it! Real stories help us shape future features - and we might even highlight yours (with permission, of course). 👉