DConf 2013 keynote

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/12/13 5:32 AM, deadalnix wrote:
> On Sunday, 12 May 2013 at 08:53:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 5/12/2013 1:42 AM, deadalnix wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 12 May 2013 at 08:40:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> On 5/11/2013 10:57 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>>>>> Stupid inexpressive language are easier to write tools for, this is
>>>>> the very
>>>>> reason why java have such a great tooling.
>>>>
>>>> You run the risk of having a write-only language if the expressivity
>>>> is in the
>>>> tools rather than the language.
>>>
>>> Tools don't have to show you what is in the text file. That is the
>>> beauty of it.
>>> IntelliJ for instance, don't show java source code as it is in the
>>> source.
>>
>> I.e. you've invented another language that has Java as its output so
>> the user never sees Java because Java is not presentable to users.
>
> What is presented to the user isn't a text format anymore.

Looks like text to me. http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/. Did I look at the 
wrong product?

Andrei