Modern IDE's like IntelliJ or Visual Studio hightlights syntax and type errors in real time, as you type. You could even avoid typing and just pick tokens from

Modern IDE's like IntelliJ or Visual Studio hightlights syntax and type errors in real time, as you type. You could even avoid typing and just pick tokens from the autocomplete menu. It would be tedious, but it is possible. So I guess this part of the vision have come to fruition. It is a solved problem. Great! I just fundamentally disagree with your terminology. Calling syntax errors "bugs", and redefining actual bugs to "errors" does not help anybody. The bottom line is that the major challenges facing software development is not a prevalence of syntax errors.