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It's definitely an idea I've thought about a lot (and would gladly work on). I really think strictly using plain-text as the interface to the compiler is a dead
by ludamad 12y ago
It's definitely an idea I've thought about a lot (and would gladly work on). I really think strictly using plain-text as the interface to the compiler is a dead-end for language design. Language designers base features around what's symbols are available in ASCII... What would be needed of course would be library support for extending this interface. For example, an image library, and a complementary IDE plugin for managing image resources.
- the_af 12y agoOne huge thing plain text representation has going for it is the diversity of text editors, and the fact they can be trivially swapped. In my opinion, "visual" source code representations will also be a dead-end if it means propietary, mutually incompatible IDEs.