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Safely Pruning Dead Code and Dangling Imports with AST Transforms

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Deleting obsolete code manually is tedious. You delete the function body, then delete the export statement, run tests, see an unused import warning, and delete the import statement. In TokenCap, we automated this workflow via tokencap refactor rm-dead . How Atomic Pruning Works Reachability Confirm…

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  1. 2026-10-08 19:22 · DEV Community — AI
    Safely Pruning Dead Code and Dangling Imports with AST Transforms

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