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Discussion on: What developer products/tools should exist, but don't?

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Eljay-Adobe

Robust refactoring tools for C++, comparable to the refactoring tools available for Java or C#.

(I understand why we don't have them, and can't have them. I'm just saying they should exist.)

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Al Chou

Though it should be remembered that the very first refactoring tool was written in and for Smalltalk, a quite dynamic language. Sure, C++ is messier, but probably some progress can be made. Truly robust refactoring, as you say, is probably infeasible, though.