> Why don’t we display content as a graph? At least as of, err, 10-ish or 20-ish years ago, it seemed to me a key issue was a dearth of code - a severe disconn

> Why don’t we display content as a graph? At least as of, err, 10-ish or 20-ish years ago, it seemed to me a key issue was a dearth of code - a severe disconnect between research literature and available FOSS code. For example, to preserve user orientation, you'd like a graph's presented layout to remain stable during user interactions and edits, rather than being needlessly, repeatedly, and extensively rearranged. There were lots of research papers and prototypes on ways to do that nicely, but crickets for code. Now imagine you want to implement a GUI app, and it turned out "well, first you'll have to implement bitblit, and then line drawing, and ...". You might get articles "Why don't we display apps as a GUI?". As someone who finds it deeply puzzling that people so prefer trees to directed graphs, it was frustrating.