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Next generation of version control will diff the AST of the parsed code, so line endings don’t show up in the diff ;) Bonus, developers will be able to each see
by laurent92 5y ago
Next generation of version control will diff the AST of the parsed code, so line endings don’t show up in the diff ;) Bonus, developers will be able to each see the code with their own code style or open a Java file in Scala ;)
- mananaysiempre 5y agoI’d love for that to be true, but it’s not like people haven’t had that idea before (if maybe not with source control, because it’s become ubiquitous only relatively recently). Pushing code beyond a textual representation has been slooow and I haven’t yet seen a breakthrough large enough to change that. The Scala thing isn’t happening, though, — it’s a difference of style and approach, not syntax.