> While in some sense I agree with you, stuff like code bubbles is just a incremental step from folding.
I said it was a "beacon in the direction we want to go," not a lighthouse at the destination!
> the point being that the underlying representation does not particularly matter. Having underlying text, however, means you have a good fallback in case your tools do fail.
Sure, do this, so long as the representation doesn't limit the objective capabilities of the environment and so long as it doesn't limit the ways tool makers think about code. Unfortunately, our current representations clearly do both.
I said it was a "beacon in the direction we want to go," not a lighthouse at the destination!
> the point being that the underlying representation does not particularly matter. Having underlying text, however, means you have a good fallback in case your tools do fail.
Sure, do this, so long as the representation doesn't limit the objective capabilities of the environment and so long as it doesn't limit the ways tool makers think about code. Unfortunately, our current representations clearly do both.