Style checking that enforces a single representation for a given ast, seems now a thing in javascript land. One less worry for often-novice programmers. Which

Style checking that enforces a single representation for a given ast, seems now a thing in javascript land. One less worry for often-novice programmers. Which makes code files simply an ast storage format. And makes people's text editors and language modes into an representational ast editors. So... it seems industrial use of semantic editing has finally begun? Relieved of the impedance mismatch between code-as-ast and code-as-richly-expressive-text, perhaps there's an opportunity here to quicken the innovation and deployment of non-traditional editing? At a time when XR seems likely to be creating the next "great software rewrite".