One thing people never realize when they talk about this kind of technology is the amount of time code spends in a non-compiling state. Think about what your dr

One thing people never realize when they talk about this kind of technology is the amount of time code spends in a non-compiling state. Think about what your dream tool does what you cannot parse the code into an AST because you're in the middle of an hours-long refactor. That's a huge reason why it's so useful having the lowest-level representation as text. Another problem is that virtually all of these efforts completely misunderstand what makes programming hard.