> That live rendering exists is in itself a sign that we want more than plaintext.
If people would just finally realize that this especially applies to code!
It's imho a complete joke that we're still using plain text for source code, and convert it back and forth between it's actual structure (an AST) and some limited and quirky textual representation.
The text representation of code should be just that: A visual representation. Not "the real thing".
Having proper rich data structures for code instead of plain text would make so much more possible given some proper editors…
If people would just finally realize that this especially applies to code!
It's imho a complete joke that we're still using plain text for source code, and convert it back and forth between it's actual structure (an AST) and some limited and quirky textual representation.
The text representation of code should be just that: A visual representation. Not "the real thing".
Having proper rich data structures for code instead of plain text would make so much more possible given some proper editors…