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> It's not going to be some magic visual model I wasn't talking about visual model at all. In fact, the word `visual` doesn't even appear in the article once.
by panstromek 4y ago
> It's not going to be some magic visual model
I wasn't talking about visual model at all. In fact, the word `visual` doesn't even appear in the article once.
- feoren 4y agoA fair point, and I can't remember what my point was going to be (perhaps I meant to delete this sentence). But on the other hand, you never talk about the alternative to plain text, and I think every alternative I've ever heard of has been "visual" in some sense. In fact I'm not sure what other options there are other than "visual" and "plain text". Perhaps what you were saying is that each developer should be able to choose whether they're working visually or in plain-text, with the underlying model being neither (binary? XML?). If you chose to work in LISP for the day, the computer would transpile the underlying model to LISP, and then transpile it back when you're done? I think this is the "magic" part, where some, what, AI does this for you? We're so far away from that being effective, and the benefits are just not there when you're truly fluent in the programming language. Every single instance I've ever seen of "Each developer can pick how it appears on their machine!" has made communication and synchronization between developers worse, not better.