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by nosefrog 4093 days ago
I agree, Docco-style docs are really easy to read.

I built srcco, a Docco-style doc generator that links every variable, function, etc. within your project to its definition (similar to sourcegraph.com -- full disclosure: I work at Sourcegraph), to demonstrate how to build things on top of our free/open source language analysis framework, srclib[0].

You might find it interesting (the links in the code have white backgrounds): http://sourcegraph.github.io/srcco/srcco.go.html

It only works for Go because the only Go toolchain keeps track of comment ranges (because srcco removes the comments from the source code), but it wouldn't be too hard to add comment ranges to the other toolchains. If you are interested in language analysis for languages like Java, Python, Haskell, or Javascript, I would be happy to help you make your first contribution. Ping me: samer@sourcegraph.com.

[0] - https://srclib.org/