Not directly related, but this made me think of something I've been interested in recently - structured editors. Instead of tokenizing text and then parsing to

Not directly related, but this made me think of something I've been interested in recently - structured editors. Instead of tokenizing text and then parsing to an AST, you effectively edit the AST directly. Since the thrust of the post seems to be about the sum of compilation + run time, it's a potentially more efficient alternative to traditional code editing. Here's an example of one in action: https://tylr.fun/ https://tylr.fun/