On 2014-01-08 09:47, Boyd wrote:
I've been experimenting with language design a bit and I found that a
much bigger issue with coding, is that we still use files and plain
text. An IDE where code is represented in a simple tree and saved in a
database, for example, would improve things dramatically, and no
language changes would be necessary.
I don't think that's necessary. It's all about how the IDE presents the
code. Currently in most text editors and IDE's the lowest unit of text
editing is a file. There's nothing stopping an IDE from providing
different units of text editing. There are already some editors that are
doing this or experiment with it:
* http://www.andrewbragdon.com/codebubbles_site.asp
* http://www.lighttable.com/
There's also the usual IDE's, like Eclipse, Xcode, VisualStudio and
NetBeans, that provides class browsers and similar.
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/Jacob Carlborg
