I think this feeds into my pet peeve that program source code shouldn't be text. The need to have everything spelled out in a readable fashion in text files is

I think this feeds into my pet peeve that program source code shouldn't be text. The need to have everything spelled out in a readable fashion in text files is a major facilitator of boiler plate code in many situations (like long throws statements in Java). More semantic representations of source code have the potential to be more selective in their handling and display of such things. There would be more ways to show automatically deduced information or to filter out code/information that is irrelevant right now.