Thank you. I’d love to spend some time studying the codebases of projects I admire like sqlite, luajit, or whatever Fabrice Bellard has a hand in, and try to find something interesting about them to share with everyone through CodeMic. There's so much to learn from human engineers of that caliber.
> As for the usefulness aspect, personally I am not sure that this has a benefit over e.g. watching youtube tutorials/following books.
I do like YouTube video tutorials, but only as long as they're short. Watching Handmade Hero (by Casey Muratori) for example was a little frustrating: the videos are long, the codebase is large, things are moving fast, and I'd get lost.
I often wished I could pause the video to look up the definition of a function, or get an overview of when each file/line was edited and jump straight to that point.
Books/blogs are ok for explaining large codebases that already exist, but not for following a project as the code constantly changes. The book Crafting Interpreters did a really good job there, but that's really rare and hard to do.
I think CodeMic could be useful for this kind of long-form tutorials.
I think you mean Scrimba. Yes, it's similar in the sense that in both tools, when you're playing back a recording, you're not looking at the code as a video. But instead the code is there as text. You can pause the recording, look at the files in the project, scroll up and down the editor etc.
The difference is that CodeMic records and replays inside your editor, not on the web. Currently, only VSCode is supported, but the output is independent of VSCode, making it easy to bring it to other editors and even the web.
Another difference is that CodeMic is not focused on web development or any particular stack. It's more general.