I don't understand why tools like this aren't built into every editor. Syntax highlighting and code folding are great, but those are ~30 year old innovations; adopting the 'blurry text' approach of the OP (where you can't read specific things), consider the general lack of visualization tools for utterly basic things like loops and branches. How come we don't automatically generate function flowcharts, for example? I use a lot of flow-based programming tools for DSP and the more time that goes by the more perverse the text fetish of many programmers appears, like a statistician that hates graphs and insists everything has to be presented in tables.
Probably because editors are editors and not code visualization tools? I hear it is good practice to separate code and programs to minimal but purposeful components. "Do one thing and do it well."
Fine, every IDE then. I don't mean to be snippy but I remember similar objections in the late 80s/early 90s to syntax highlighting on the grounds that it was a crutch to lazy/incompetent programmers, and now I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn't take it for granted.
The fact that we're still typing crap into windows and calling advances along this one-dimensional path 'innovation' is pain.
Intentional[1] had a lot of promise but was too slow off the mark and now feels more like BPML, which has too much XML hiding under the covers to be good. As it stands, making solution development easier for business users has not had a broad impact on the overall productivity of developers.
'Blub' assumes existence on a continuum of language. It's a limiting concept in itself, as many of us have a different internal representation of thought.
It's sad to read about "python stuff for swift" or "haskell stuff for scala" when the only advantage of those exercises is as homework to understand the concepts.
