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Being able to include diagrams of what code is doing _inline_ is something that is vastly over looked by the majority of developers.

It's one of the better parts of literate programming without typesetting.



I was struggling to come up with "worth it" ASCII-art-in-code scenarios for my codebase and found a post[1] with examples (that turns out to have been posted here in HN a while back[2]). Pretty cool.

[1] https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1653 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31891226




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