emacs-sos

My guess is that IDEs and debuggers will be more integrated with what's available online. Let's say you have a compiling error. Currently you look up on google the error message the compiler gives you and most likely get a stackoverflow link with someone having the same problem - and hopefully someone else having answered it. Your IDE could do that automatically instead - there is already a plugin to access stackoverflow from emacs [0]. I imagine one further step would be to have some AI that can read snippets of your code that are causing problems and match it to similar snippets from Stackoverflow. Let's say your code is (in python): myCounter = 0 while myCounter < 10: doSomething(counter) The AI could realize that it's exactly the same mistake as this code that someone posted on stackoverflow because it ran infinitely:

if you're only using StackOverflow, I created a small mode called sos-mode: https://github.com/omouse/emacs-sos The difference is that sos-mode is made for getting answers quickly and being able to copy/paste any code snippets. The output buffer of answers uses org-mode so it's easy to tag the list. A full-blown stackexchange mode may be good if you're answering questions or looking for a lot of answers but I don't see that happening a lot. Most users are anonymous (sos-mode doesn't require login) and just want to get some answer.