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> I want all the WYSIWYG of Word or PowerPoint or Inkscape just right there feeling 100% natural and native. There's a thing for everyone, but that dystopian s
by enriquto 8y ago
> I want all the WYSIWYG of Word or PowerPoint or Inkscape just right there feeling 100% natural and native.
There's a thing for everyone, but that dystopian stuff you are describing here I cannot fathom even in my worst nightmares. The text file is a very powerful abstraction for programming and I hope it will never day.
- nikofeyn 8y agotext is terrible for communicating high-level structure and data flow in programs, as well as asynchronous and parallel programming paradigms. it’s clear that if programming is a way of thinking as much as telling a computer what to do then it is well behind nearly every other field in terms of visualizing and seeing and touching the hidden processes.