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0 pointsmichael-ax1d ago0 comments

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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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.

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