I am hijacking this slightly to talk about something only partially related. I am very sleep deprived right now and probably won't do the idea justice, but it's

I am hijacking this slightly to talk about something only partially related. I am very sleep deprived right now and probably won't do the idea justice, but it's bounced around my head for a while now. It's that I find programming a fundamentally visual medium, even as text. It's an urge whenever I write a function, not simply to be "neat" and visually consistent but for the program text to embody a rhythm that provides a subtext. Functions with lots of short branches have a bubbly fine grained texture. I see them performing lots of detailed operations and I know it's IO bound code. It's one reason Golang programs feel good to me when applied to this domain. I see rigidity aligned segments and I sense this is programming as configuration. I know I'm supposed to... elide over the operational details as a reader and it's maybe even functional. I like authoring those sorts of functions in Haskell, I can line up my let / wheres and case matches to visually communicate "I am doing rules based programming here". I wonder if other programmers interact with programs visually. It's one reason I kind of... dislike other contributions to my programs because they don't usually follow my visual subtext. I tolerate it, obviously but it makes me wonder how much of code readability really is common sense and what aspects are highly unique