Intern project: Annotated source browser

[steveklabnik]

Issue by nikomatsakis
Thursday Sep 13, 2012 at 17:40 GMT

For earlier discussion, see rust-lang/rust#3485

This issue was labelled with: A-an-interesting-project, A-tools, I-wishlist in the Rust repository

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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).

[nrc]

See https://github.com/nick29581/rust-dxr