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As someone who loves coding and design, this was a very fun read. But in all seriousness, the visual design of code these days feels archaic. The only real "in
by wanderingstan 6y ago
As someone who loves coding and design, this was a very fun read.
But in all seriousness, the visual design of code these days feels archaic. The only real "innovations" in the last 50 years of on-screen coding have been block indenting and syntax highlighting. (And arguably coding ligatures.)
Coders of the future might find our source code as clumsy and impenetrable as ancient writing before the inventions of punctuation, headings, spaces, arabic numerals, footnotes, etc...
I'm working on some ideas and playing with some prototypes. If anyone else is interested in the subject, give me a shout. <my username>@gmail.com.