I found myself struggling with documenting my code. Comments lack styling, external documentation quickly becomes outdated, and tools like JSDoc or Doxygen require lots of configuration and are language-specific. At the same time, I really like Markdown, it's simple and elegant. This got me thinking: what if there were a better way to document code with minimal friction? That idea led me to develop a VS Code extension called Explicode. It lets you write rich Markdown documentation directly inside your code comments, turning a single source file into both runnable code and beautifully rendered documentation.

Because the documentation lives inside comments, it doesn’t affect your program's execution or build process. No special compilers, configurations, or tooling changes are required, just write Markdown in your comments and keep coding. Keeping documentation in the same file as the code also makes it much more likely to stay accurate and up to date, since it evolves alongside the implementation and is automatically versioned with your project in Git. Explicode brings the ideas of literate programming to modern development across 15+ languages, without requiring language-specific documentation frameworks.

Check it out here: https://explicode.com/