Omniref (YC W15) Is Rap Genius for Code

Grats tim!

Congratulations!

I view sourcegraph as a better starting point for rap genius for code

suggestions:

- allow authors to write a general overview (with links to methods) of the design philosophy, tradeoffs accepted, stuff that they would do differently now, etc. This could help generate smart pull requests for bigger / more significant features too.

- allow people to ask questions about a line of code.

- allow people to request/contribute better documentation, categorized as api docs, usage examples, etc.

- Allow the author to "accept" an annotation as literate comments submitted as a fork/pr via github.

- let users follow a method or class.

- let users generate a list of methods to follow in a library based on hot path analysis of library use (maybe I only use 3 methods and would love to see changes to those coming from upstream)

- let users contribute method rewrites or unit tests of individual methods as annotations.

- ideally dialogues would ensue about clever/clear ways to implement things. I'd enjoy reading those dialogues.

That is actually a good idea. One of the reasons I think the ACM Digital Library has failed to live up to its potential (besides being closed) is that they could do cool useful things like this and choose not to.