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I don’t know if I’m “wishing for” such environments, I just strongly suspect they will arrive (or they technically should, if they overcome industry’s inertia).
by goblin89 5y ago
I don’t know if I’m “wishing for” such environments, I just strongly suspect they will arrive (or they technically should, if they overcome industry’s inertia).
ALICE offered structured editing in a world where graphical output was so limited (and the lacking capability to just enter text in freeform was definitely a dealbreaker). I wonder how such an IDE could look today if rethought from fundamentals after all the advances in making and displaying GUIs.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoThey've been arriving for the last few decades, but haven't been successful yet. No one has really thought through a fluid efficient editing experience for them that can leverage the benefits of structure without the stilted input entry that the structure seems to imply so far...and our understanding of UI hasn't gotten much better than it was before. Someone might crack it someday, I hope.
- goblin89 5y agoThe problem is versioning code as structured data. It is not yet here, but there are very recent advances (Pijul et al). Freed from the shackles of LoC, GUIs can do all sorts of magic with structured.