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Re: "Pitfalls of structure editors"
Read "let over lambda" - a few chapters are online and there are pdfs floating around. It has changed my life.
Nov 21 · 4 weeks ago
🐝 undefined [OP] · Nov 22 at 08:24:
Yeah, lisp is really the best case scenario for these kind of things since the syntax is just a direct representation of the ast. Though that simplicity comes with restrictions on that very ast: one of the reasons you don't have explicit typing in lisp, for example, is not that you can't do it, it's that it would be a pain to write and deal with so people just through inertia end up rolling with a worse system. And, as you've said, the macros break that uniformity anyway.
Pitfalls of structure editors — The tools for a structure-aware editing have existed for a long time in IDEs and things like tags, cscope and lsps as of late, as well. However, the editors fully commited to this kind of mindset haven't really been done well before. Here, I'll list some of the reasons I myself have found while trying to design one, later abondoning the project. Also, while I am myself pessimistic of this idea, it would be interesting to hear other perspectives, or inspire...