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How does Codelf help you to name function/variable better?by@unbug
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How does Codelf help you to name function/variable better?

by unbugSeptember 15th, 2017
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Do you have the problem to make a function/variable name? Of cause you do. It does not matter how long you’ve been written codes. Naming things is hard. Especially for developers.

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Do you have the problem to make a function/variable name? Of cause you do. It does not matter how long you’ve been written codes. Naming things is hard. Especially for developers.

Plih Karlton said, “ There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.”


Pliki: TwoHardThings_There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things -- Phil Karlton (bonus…_martinfowler.com

“The results were based on 4,500 votes developers provided on Quora and an older Ubuntu Forums thread. Naming things got (just about) as many votes as the next 8 hardest tasks combined. Wow!”


Don't go into programming if you don't have a good thesaurus_Last week I wrote a piece about the hardest tasks programmers have to do. It was based primarily on a recent discussion…_www.itworld.com

And more and more developers have then the common problem, they keep commenting on Reddit.

Believe or not, there is a search engine called Codelf save your time when you have the problem to name function/variable. It’s the first tool out there try to solve the hardest problem for developers. The engine powered by Search code.


CODELF_Best GitHub stars, repositories tagger and organizer. Search over projects from Github, Bitbucket, Google Code…_unbug.github.io

It’s open source and popular, it gets more than 5k+ stars on GitHub.


unbug/codelf_codelf - Best GitHub stars, repositories tagger and organizer. Search over projects from Github, Bitbucket, Google Code…_github.com

It just like any other search engines, you give it a keyword, it gives you the result, the difference is it only gives you real-world usage variable names. It searches over projects from GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab to find them.

You even could choose your favorite language. You can also view the source codes too, and it will highlight where the variable name is using.

The most fun part is, you don’t need search with English keyword, search with your mother language, Codelf will translate it to English then search for the results.

Codelf is really nice to every developer, there are plugins for VSCode, Atom, Sublime Text and Chrome app.

Fro VSCode

For Atom

Code + Elf = Codelf. Means there is an elf side by side when you are coding. Isn’t it so cute?