Comment on How we failed, then succeeded, at migrating to TypeScriptparentComments−AriaMinaei6yYou're getting in the realm of "projectional editing." It's a fascinating idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15534555−minxomat6yYep. You can take MPS today and implement an AST projection that looks like whatever you want. No parsing involved, impossible to even write syntactically invalid code (since it is not code you're writing, but an AST projection).−switz6yI love reading about stuff like this, thanks for sharing. Developer UX still has a lot of room to grow.
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You're getting in the realm of "projectional editing." It's a fascinating idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15534555
Yep. You can take MPS today and implement an AST projection that looks like whatever you want. No parsing involved, impossible to even write syntactically invalid code (since it is not code you're writing, but an AST projection).
I love reading about stuff like this, thanks for sharing. Developer UX still has a lot of room to grow.