I posted this because I needed a code annotation tool to help me understand some C code and I remembered Omniref. I'm sad to see it disappear like this. I hope they will open source the annotations so that others can host it.
My use case isn't anything fancy. I just want to understand what tail is doing behind the scenes with inotify so that I can implement it in another language but I haven't found a rigorous enough outline of tail in pseudo-code to translate it. So now I'm just fighting with it in Vim and VSCode to strip away all the baggage that C forces onto a problem to get to the meat of the actual solution.
I think we all gain when code is more understandable and don't have to individually reverse engineer things to transport the lessons from one code base into another. I thought crowd sourcing the annotation process was an interesting take by Omniref. Maybe it was ahead of its time.
My use case isn't anything fancy. I just want to understand what tail is doing behind the scenes with inotify so that I can implement it in another language but I haven't found a rigorous enough outline of tail in pseudo-code to translate it. So now I'm just fighting with it in Vim and VSCode to strip away all the baggage that C forces onto a problem to get to the meat of the actual solution.
I think we all gain when code is more understandable and don't have to individually reverse engineer things to transport the lessons from one code base into another. I thought crowd sourcing the annotation process was an interesting take by Omniref. Maybe it was ahead of its time.