https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_editor
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ProjectionalEditing.html
Is gtoolkit the most advanced Projectional Editor or Structure Editor Editor so far?
We were certainly aware of Intentional Programming. And indeed, Glamorous Toolkit does have a language workbench underneath with which we can create editing experiences for various technologies.
But we started from the "reading" part of software engineering not from the "writing". That's because "reading" the system occupies the largest amount of development effort and it's the least optimized activity. Through contextual tools we can improve it manyfold. And this, it turns out, leads to a new way of "writing" as well. We call it Moldable Development.
I suspect this paradigm would be better served by nuking the implementation and reframing this around AI with tool usage. That seems where development is going
In any case, we wrote a bit about what we think of the intersection between Moldable Development and GenAI as explanations here: https://medium.com/feenk/rewilding-software-engineering-a360...
AI can use tools, including everything GT can use. MCP is an emerging "standard" for how to make tools available to AI
In GT, we have integration with LLMs as well, including programatic ways to create interfaces for it.
MCP is certainly interesting.
AI is also moldable development
If you had to ask what AI tool usage is, then you have missed significant aspects of the shift
Moldable Development is first and foremost about the interface. AI is an engine. The interface is the thing you interact through. Like the chat. Or the editor with chat abilities. That little layer is worth paying attention to. Because it will define how you think about your interactions with AI.
I'd still be interested if you have a specific point you disagree with in relation to what I wrote above and in particular, what we wrote in our little book (the link is above) specifically about the topic of this conversation.