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Re:Maybe visual programming is the answer, maybe not by sullyj3 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @07:07PM (#22982463)
> Why can't methods (for instance) get displayed as convenient, without worrying about where they are in the file?

This is something unison is playing with with their codebase manager.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCWtkvDQ2ZI

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Re:Maybe visual programming is the answer, maybe not by zubairq on Sunday April 26, 2020 @04:37AM (#22985592)
Actually Pilot works in the same way. It treats all code as independent of the file system, identified by the h SHA256 of the content. https://github.com/zubairq/pilot
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