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Hi, OP here. My friend and I created this because we think the current state of how we share programming knowledge on the internet is broken and mostly neglect
by mlejva 7y ago
Hi, OP here.
My friend and I created this because we think the current state of how we share programming knowledge on the internet is broken and mostly neglected.
We just got frustrated by reading another Medium article with code in it.
We think the best place to read something with code has already been invented - IDE. We started with an extension for Visual Studio Code.
The core idea is that you can keep your codebase separated from the text and at the same time, you can create bindings between smaller parts of code and parts of the text. This way you can have growing codebase and reveal the story behind it.
The extension is kinda buggy but usable and shows the core idea. Feel free to ask any questions.
- billconan 7y agoYou might be interested in this https://ourcodestories.com/ https://ourcodestories.com/
- andand 7y agoHow do you share the text with bindings?
- mlejva 7y agoCurrently, you can only share the whole project. Codelines creates .codelines folder when first activated. So by sending someone the whole project, they can start the extension and read what you wrote. Obviously, this isn't ideal but we didn't want to spend another week building sharing capabilites.
- sansnomme 7y agoAny plans to add importers for common code annotation formats?
- mlejva 7y agoBy importers do you mean importing code into the text? We want to add more rich text functionality. We just didn’t want to spend more days building this without any feedback.
- sansnomme 7y agoLike being able to convert off the shelf code annotations into your format: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20382841 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20382841