Comment on Mixing Visual and Textual CodeComments−michael-ax2moWe have the complete AST in almost every IDE. Why are we not learning to render abstracted code and systems from that??−delegate2mobecause it's unusable in practice. It's fun as an idea and as a toy, but when you try to use such a visual system to do work, you quickly realise that text is way more flexible and simpler to operate on.
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We have the complete AST in almost every IDE. Why are we not learning to render abstracted code and systems from that??
because it's unusable in practice. It's fun as an idea and as a toy, but when you try to use such a visual system to do work, you quickly realise that text is way more flexible and simpler to operate on.