Over time, I saw one intriguing idea that any person would reject immediately as they shock the sane mind, but that I thought may be worth a bit more considerat

Over time, I saw one intriguing idea that any person would reject immediately as they shock the sane mind, but that I thought may be worth a bit more consideration: Moving away from a pure text format. If you think about it, a lot of projects already do that: Android projects and Visual Studio projects often include GUI descriptions. Sure, they are XML, technically a text format, but not designed for direct redaction by a human. It is the thing I have realized when, despite a lot of ideological reservations, I started to like Visual C#: a programming language is linked to the way it is used, to its IDE. I wish language designers would embrace that fact, and not assume that the IDE would be a generic text editor. I think that is holding back a lot of possible designs.