Things like rust-analyzer are exactly what I think lead me to believe... what if code was designed to be imported by a "database" and then changes could be made

Things like rust-analyzer are exactly what I think lead me to believe... what if code was designed to be imported by a "database" and then changes could be made there and serialized back. Not too dissimilar to how unison lets you select functions to edit, but drop the cli and text files requirements. Create an API/UI/etc. to edit the "code" in the "database".