Interesting how many different directions people have gone in doing something along these lines... Since 2014 I've been building a system with a similar object

Interesting how many different directions people have gone in doing something along these lines... Since 2014 I've been building a system with a similar objective, but focusing on 1) visualizing at (hopefully) the most useful level of abstraction 2) making the time-evolution of objects in memory clear and navigable. Video and details here: http://symbolflux.com/projects/avd http://symbolflux.com/projects/avd My system works by monitoring/rendering explicitly defined data structures (something like `Lucidity.monitor(my_tree_data_structure)`), but more generally I think of the tool that we're missing as a kind of 'abstractoscope'--some means of automatically transforming the contents of a running program's representation in memory into something comprehensible by humans. The problem feels to me sort of like needing a microscope--we need a relatively passive instrument in order to monitor the behavior of running programs (which are not visible to the naked eye). The problem in this case is that we have too much information instead of too little though, so our instrument needs to automatically discard irrelevant information (i.e. abstract) for us, rather than magnifying.