Hacker News: alcapwnedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alcapwnedHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:32:47 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by alcapwned in "Light Table - a new IDE concept"]]>Perhaps you could make comments part of the ast decoration. Hover over a function call and the IDE can popup a display showing comments for that function. The popup could be easily switched back and forth between comments, the parameter list, or possibly other info about the function. The comments could be plain-text, rendered HTML, or even crazier stuff like audio/video recordings for particularly important comments.

People could choose whether they wanted comments rendered inline with code like usual or displayed elsewhere.

]]>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:01:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3839200alcapwnedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3839200https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3839200