What you care about as a programmer is what your code does, right? Basically whatever the compiler has after lexical analysis (except for comments maybe).
So why do we bother with all that coding style stuff if we could make an IDE that edits the program itself instead of text? (I get that text is a universal format, but that doesn't mean we have to edit it directly.)
Instead of editing text you could choose to "declare a function", "rename this identifier" or "call function x with y and z arguments" and then save it with some coding style.
Is there such an IDE? I know what I'm describing is pretty much visual programming, but I mean for "text" languages.
So why do we bother with all that coding style stuff if we could make an IDE that edits the program itself instead of text? (I get that text is a universal format, but that doesn't mean we have to edit it directly.)
Instead of editing text you could choose to "declare a function", "rename this identifier" or "call function x with y and z arguments" and then save it with some coding style.
Is there such an IDE? I know what I'm describing is pretty much visual programming, but I mean for "text" languages.