Can we visualize software complexity?
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A static analyzer extracts module-to-module relations from Elixir source and renders them with hierarchical edge bundling in D3 so you can see hot modules, context clusters and cross-context edges. The prototype is on GitHub as iron/graph and runs locally via a provided Docker image or Node/D3 pipeline. Examples include fresh Phoenix, Ecto and Absinthe; a 26-module worst case yields about 26^2 ≈ 676 edges. Limitations: analysis is static, edges are undirected and runtime calls or cycles aren’t captured.
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