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michael-axtoday at 12:58 PM1 replyview on HN

We have the complete AST in almost every IDE. Why are we not learning to render abstracted code and systems from that??


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delegatetoday at 6:31 PM

because it's unusable in practice. It's fun as an idea and as a toy, but when you try to use such a visual system to do work, you quickly realise that text is way more flexible and simpler to operate on.