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One middleground option if you have a long function but also want to break it into chucks for easy readability: In C# and some other languages you can put braces around a block of code without actually having any condition on it.

Or just throw some big comment headers in.

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VS Code has regions, which look like preprocessor instructions but I don't think they actually have any affect on the code. They do, however collapse while providing a nice label.

Jetbrains IDEs have those too

Thanks, I've been using PyCharm for years and didn't know that.

In Swift I use locally-scoped functions for this. It has the advantage of ensuring that this single-use function can't be called from outside the intended scope, but I can still chunk the work into easy-to-reason-about pieces.

C# has those now also: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-g...

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