Intern project: Annotated source browser
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Description
Thursday Sep 13, 2012 at 17:40 GMT
For earlier discussion, see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/3485
This issue was labelled with: A-an-interesting-project, A-tools, I-wishlist in the Rust repository
I was thinking: it'd be very cool to have a tool based on rustc that presented an annotated view of the source code, showing:
- the inferred types of local variables, expressions;
- hyperlinks between fn calls and the source text;
- monomorphized versions of generic fns etc specific to a particular call site
This might also be useful in presenting error messages and so forth.
Seems like it would make a great intern project (we should have a tag for that).
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Research direction
Start with the earlier discussion referenced in rust-lang/rust#3485, then review the proposed rustc-based annotated source browser here. Establish the scope before implementation: inferred types, call hyperlinks, and monomorphized generic functions are all listed as goals; done would require a working tool that presents the agreed subset.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100