No one is stopping you from using regexps in IDEs.
And you somehow manage to undersell the rename functionality in an IDE. And I've used move/extract functionality multiple times.
I do however agree that applicable transformations (like upgrading to new syntaxes, or ways of doing stuff as languages evolve) could be applied wholesale to large chunks of code.
And you somehow manage to undersell the rename functionality in an IDE. And I've used move/extract functionality multiple times.
I do however agree that applicable transformations (like upgrading to new syntaxes, or ways of doing stuff as languages evolve) could be applied wholesale to large chunks of code.