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fkling / astexplorer

A web tool to explore the ASTs generated by various parsers.
https://astexplorer.net/
MIT License
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Feature Request: Description of code segments #576

Closed codinghusi closed 3 years ago

codinghusi commented 3 years ago

Hey there, just got a little idea: sometimes when I learn a new programming language, I don't understand all parts in code examples. I'd find it pretty neat, if I could hover over code segments and get a description of what those do. Does something like that fit into this project?

Have a nice day :)

fkling commented 3 years ago

It's a good idea :) But I don't think astexplorer is the right place for this. I'm a fan of tools doing "one thing well". I see astexplorer as something that could enable building such a tool. I have actually started to prototype something like this for JavaScript, and if the related code/framework ever gets completed it could also be used for other programming languages: https://felix-kling.de/explainjs

codinghusi commented 3 years ago

Okay you're right. I fully agree with you! Is your project 'explainjs' opensource?

fkling commented 3 years ago

I haven't published the code yet but I guess I should despite it not being finished yet. I'll write up a readme and create a repo in the next couple of days.