Refactoring with AST-Grep

Mon, 2026-02-23 at 19:00

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Kammerstraat 10, Gent

Fun, easy and efficient refactoring

Recent advancements in industry made refactoring incredibly boring, expensive and slow. (Think about the sound a donkey makes but then reversed.)

Willem Vanhulle will show how to make refactoring great again with a tool AST-Grep. This tool can be used to apply extremely targeted and efficient refactors to large codebases in milliseconds.

A sample from the official website:

ast-grep -p '$A && $A()' -r '$A?.()'

The presentation (of 30 minutes.) will not be too technical, so people are able to follow along after a long workday without having a laptop in front of them.

Afterward, let’s have a drink in the area!