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Have you ever wondered how to make sure that your determination to live a healthier life, not sweat the small stuff, and work smarter, not harder continues past Valentine's Day? Psychologists say that breaking big goals into small steps is the best way to stick to your New Year's resolutions. This advice applies to programmers’ resolutions too. If you plan a large project that involves code refactoring, you may want to see the full picture of the required changes and plan accordingly. This is exactly what the IntelliJ team did when they needed to localize the IDE’s entire UI into Chinese, J

JetBrains IDEs are well known for their ability to understand code. They can track declarations, check references and types, and collect possible execution paths. Thanks to all this static analysis, you are able to rename and move things around safely, get appropriate code completion, and get warned with a message saying “hey, this won't run” from the code inspection if you are adding something that won’t work into your code. Having all this while you are working in the editor is extremely helpful, but modern CI-centric workflows require having a reliable quality gate in your build pipeline.