Gary Bernhardt has a good take on this in his talk A Whole New World [1]. He introduces an editor which has these layers which can display or hide orthogonal in

Gary Bernhardt has a good take on this in his talk A Whole New World [1]. He introduces an editor which has these layers which can display or hide orthogonal information such as types, a short view or profiling details. That talk, and your comment and my inability to find anything that does this kind of work simply surprises me. Are there no good examples of systems that allow these kind of simple transformations out there? I remember someone pointing me to a clojure editor a while back, maybe? I can't remember. Seems to me there is a desire for editors that allow a user to transform code, whether it be annotations or raster graphics as Bernhardt puts it. The closest I know of is org mode, and how it works on a plaintext interface but has no qualms about displaying it in wildly different ways than an org file might look opened up in vim, though it still does maintain readablity. I think this is the way to go and I've been playing around with a personal workflow on top of org mode lately. What do you think? [1]: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world