The future is hybrid. Source code will become non-textual in storage and VCS, but our editors (code lenses) will remain looking and feeling like text editors.

The future is hybrid. Source code will become non-textual in storage and VCS, but our editors (code lenses) will remain looking and feeling like text editors. (The danger in trying to invent a next-gen non-plaintext programming environment is the siren song of flow charts, mouse-only editors, XML serializations, and other dead ends.)