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Discussion on: Should programming languages be made for IDEs rather than humans?

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Most IDEs are are bloated enough already. Moving away from raw text to something with a massive amount of overhead is only going to create other problems. A job I had years ago involved programming in visual system represented by a tree, where you dragged and drop objects, and editted their properties. It was truly the most awful thing ever. Imagine reading a text book in the format of pop-up book.