Declaration syntax

[Jacob Carlborg]

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