Vivien🌌 on Nostr: #[0] Unfortunately, programming languages are stuck with plain text, so each one of ...

npub1f3srhzp5z8qwchfdyy6kceysfg9jzxr937ttracqrxuxuncc25mqgmjzfc (npub1f3s…jzfc) Unfortunately, programming languages are stuck with plain text, so each one of them has its own bizarre grammar. Even for the new ones! If we could edit the AST directly, it would not only be way easier to diff programs, but we could also have internationalization of variable and function names and comments, easier navigation and syntax highlighting, less discussions about indentation and so on.

I’m not aware of any programming language that tries this approach.