I hope we see this kind of exploration with Unison, which is stored as an AST in a database and not as text.
Of course you could just take existing text from a codebase and reformat it for viewing, but then there's this ambiguity about which version is real that you'd have to deal with.
In Unison it's understood that none of the text is real, it's only the resulting AST and its hash that matters, so if you're seeing text at all you know it's just for your benefit in that moment. It's such a cool idea.
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I hope we see this kind of exploration with Unison, which is stored as an AST in a database and not as text.
Of course you could just take existing text from a codebase and reformat it for viewing, but then there's this ambiguity about which version is real that you'd have to deal with.
In Unison it's understood that none of the text is real, it's only the resulting AST and its hash that matters, so if you're seeing text at all you know it's just for your benefit in that moment. It's such a cool idea.