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Store ASTs in git instead of text, "reconstruct" the text when displaying to the developer and roundtrip. Add some execution context and annotations to the AST

by rswail 2y ago

Store ASTs in git instead of text, "reconstruct" the text when displaying to the developer and roundtrip. Add some execution context and annotations to the AST and you could even do "git blame" in your debugger.

zokier 2y ago
code can be thought of as serialized ast, and you need to serialize ast somehow anyways for storage
- rswail 2y ago
  Yes and no, code comes with affordances like whitespace and comment layouts that are for humans that are unnecessary excess for ASTs.