Reduce Visibility

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:20:22 +0200

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I like to use and build tools that let me improve the source code. I’m not talking about LLMs; I’m talking about deterministic tools that I can run over and over again on a source code.

Two weeks ago, an answer in the detekt Slack channel caught my attention. Eugen Martynov commented on an interesting feature in Dependency Analysis Gradle Plugin (DAGP). DAGP has an undocumented task called publicTypeUsage that lists all the public classes that can be internal. That’s so good! Reducing visibility helps your source code in different ways. The one that I like the most: it helps to detect (and remove) dead code.

Kotlin on Brais Gabín

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