📝Text source code is adding friction to some programming constructs

Programming is limited by source code being text, which is 2D at best. This makes it harder to use concepts that don’t map nicely to text (e.g., pipes and filters, data graphs, tables).

See also

• Non-text programming
• Projectional Editor. Editors that understand that source code is not just text.
• Text has become a popular format because it’s simple, human-readable and human-writable
• Lowering the friction may exponentially influence the usage. Text is adding friction for things that are not easily represented in text.