Hacker News Reader

Is this the unison you mean? https://www.unison-lang.org/

Unrelated: what has your experience been using igneous-linearizer to help understand other people's code?

That's it. And the linearizer is only one way-- you write text with [[links]] and turn that into plaintext.

You may have encountered leo [ https://leo-editor.github.io/leo-editor/ ]. I use it to pull in or write code and break it up into comprehensible pieces. It works, but it feels overcomplex. I'm open to something simpler, and will give this a try.

I had't seen it! The "clones" feature is cool, it sounds like they're way ahead in figuring out how to use transclusions effectively when coding.

Previously I'd thought of using transclusions for things like long-lived documentation. Now reading about Leo it seems like they'd be just as useful for creating short-term views into one's code. Eg start a refactor PR by transcluding all the relevant definitions into a doc. Now you can start writing PR comments in that doc before you even begin coding, and when you do all the relevant code is right there.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com