IntelliJ IDEA

When writing code, we constantly receive assistance from static analysis. Invisible mechanisms work behind the scenes to provide us with all sorts of suggestions and warnings. It would not be an exaggeration to say that IntelliJ IDEA knows more about our code than we do. Now what if we could access …

A while ago, I was studying the output of IntelliJ IDEA’s static analyzer for Java code and came across an interesting case. Since the code fragment was not open source, I’ve anonymized it and removed the external dependencies. Let's just say it looked something like this: private static List proce…