The particular method of turning javascript comments into a "literate" source view, used in the link under discussion here, comes from Jeremy Ashkenas circa 200

The particular method of turning javascript comments into a "literate" source view, used in the link under discussion here, comes from Jeremy Ashkenas circa 2009, e.g.: https://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore-esm.html https://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore-esm.html https://coffeescript.org/annotated-source/lexer.html https://coffeescript.org/annotated-source/lexer.html https://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html https://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html