Low-Level Developer Tools and Productivity

Developer productivity is a highly valued research topic for academics and industry professionals alike. Reducing the amount of time spent on tasks like foraging for information, navigating code, and debugging can provide substantial benefits to developers of all skill levels. There are many works that explore this topic in-depth (e.g., [1]–[3]). One of these studies, for example, showed that 50% of programmers' time was spent searching for information [2]. Additionally, there are numerous tools that have been built to address these pain points and boost software developer productivity. These tools often provide improved code editor interfaces (e.g., Patchworks [4]) or debugging tools for high-level languages (e.g., Gzoltar [5]).