Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declining. Programming seems harder.
Sounds like you&#x27;ve identified your problem with the task - you can&#x27;t hold the entire state of the problem in your head all at once, but maybe you would have been able to in the past.<p>This seems like something you can overcome. Have you tried writing these function calls out as a flow on a piece of paper, or in a flow chart, document, something like that? A reference which you draw to be able to tell where you are the stack and where you came from.<p>It sounds like a very crusty task and I doubt I could maintain that many levels of calls in many different contexts. The important thing is finding a mechanism which works for you.<p>edit: I&#x27;d note that it&#x27;s possible your development environment is older than your colleagues, too. Many modern ones (VS Code, etc) can jump around a codebase automatically - find callers to a function, jump to where the next function is defined, etc. Maybe check their setup and see if it&#x27;s worth adopting.