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Every IDE I have ever seen has code folding and auto-indentation. Including Xcode. This is a solution looking for a problem.
by teilo 11y ago
Every IDE I have ever seen has code folding and auto-indentation. Including Xcode. This is a solution looking for a problem.
- ubertaco 11y agoThe one advantage to be gained is that users wouldn't control indentation characters -- meaning that the editor could be opinionated about one or the other, and the user wouldn't need to worry about accidentally messing it up.
- stcredzero 11y agoI think of it more as a demonstration of a general principle. There's no reason why we shouldn't abandon flat text files. Some huge fraction of development shops aren't really coding in flat text files anymore -- the IDE being completely essential to the shop's process at this point. Many IDEs have to basically parse the source to develop live objects to have their full capability, anyhow. Environments like Smalltalk have been operating without source files for decades now. Instead of source files as we know them, you basically have textual transaction logs for changing the source code database. This even makes the system more powerful, flexible, and robust thank traditional text files.