codEEmoji – Making code more informative with emojis

12:2015 mins08/11/2024

This presentation focuses on the open-source project codEEmoji, an IDE plugin that adds additional information to the code through emojis. The talk starts by discussing the benefits of this approach compared to other ways to present information for the developer in IDEs. It follows by presenting the plugin and its main functionalities, which go from pointing out bad practices in method and variable naming to presenting modifiers and method characteristics in their usage. Next, it is presented how the plugin structure was designed to receive new contributions. The talk finishes by presenting some challenges and future features.

https://github.com/codeemoji/codeemoji-plugin

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/22416-codeemoji