Text files full of punctuation? There must be a better way to code.
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Claim: code is a manipulable tree and editing is node add remove or reattach, demonstrated by a tim tams example and live VS Code edits parsed with ast.pars and ast.dump. Concrete interfaces compared: block editors like blueprints (Unreal) that launch a player, flow graphs in bolt that generate equivalent C# and the Chrome inspector editing DOM/CSS. Shows limits—runtime, spaghetti layout and low information density—and concrete benefits: fewer merge conflicts, device‑specific editors and possible multilingual UIs.
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