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Discussion on: What developer products/tools should exist, but don't?

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Matthew Daly

I'd really like version control systems to have a way to annotate a line of code in a way that the annotation doesn't actually show up in the code base proper, but can be accessed through your text editor's integration with the version control.

Things like TODO annotations, long-winded and potentially distracting comments and so on could then be taken out of the code base proper and stored as annotations.

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Al Chou

Sort of in this vein is the "Code comments" plugin for Jetbrains IDE's: "[Code comments plugin lets you] Add comments to code of project without change (sic) it."