Unrelated question: what are the main reasons (aside from the obvious file format problems) for which we don't have rich text syntax?
Imagine having a e.g. link in the code. Wouldn't that be useful?
Imagine having a e.g. link in the code. Wouldn't that be useful?
Useful - for what? Do you want that link to be written & maintained by you, or to be automatically generated by the tools? Because we already have the latter... (e.g. in many IDEs, ctrl-/cmd-click on symbols performs useful actions, eg. takes you to the definition or finds all references if you're at the definition site).
To deal with this one could of course have a static type system instead, but that necessitates learning the DSL behind it and its idioms - the lack of which is the main appeal of dynamic typing to begin with.
Have you ever wrestled with MS Word to make you heading appear on the right page? Imagine having to do that to make code compile.
Terminals.