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Re:Making bracket pair colorization faster by Aeolun on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:10PM (#28695691)
It would also be much harder to render or edit.
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Re:Making bracket pair colorization faster by pbiggar on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @01:48PM (#28697278)
My claim - which I am testing with https://darklang.com - is that code being stored as text is a source of significant friction. There are certainly trade-offs, but the value of the non-text representation is under-considered, as is the cost of the text representation.
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