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(For background, this talk has an overview of the design goals for the editor.)

Editor Ideas

Here are some ideas and interesting resources for the editor. Feel free to make a PR to add more!

Sources of Potential Inspiration

These are potentially inspirational resources for the editor's design.

Package-specific editor integrations

(Or possibly module-specific integrations, type-specific integrations, etc.)

Live Interactivity

Debugging

Structured Editing

Non-Code Related Inspiration

  • Scrivner writing app for novelists, screenwriters, and more
  • Word processors (Word, Google Docs, etc)
    • Comments that are parallel to the text of the document.
    • Comments can act as discussions and not just statements.
    • Easy tooling around adding tables and other stylised text
  • Excel and Google Sheets
    • Not sure, maybe something they do well that we (code editors) could learn from

Machine Learning Ideas

  • Ability to record all changes to abstract syntax tree with user permission.
    • I think it is possible to create powerful automatic error resolution by having a dataset available of ast's with a specific error and the subsequent transformation that fixed the error.
    • GPT-3 can generate correct python functions based on a comment describing the functionality, video here. It's possible that training a model using ast's may lead to better results than text based models.
    • Users with large private code bases could (re)train a publicly available error recovery model to experience benefits without having to share their code.
    • It could be useful to a user who is creating a function to show them the most similar function (type signature, name, comment) in a public+their private database. Say I was using a web framework and I just created a function that has a multipart form as argument, it would be great to have an example instantly available.

General Thoughts/Ideas

Thoughts and ideas possibly taken from above inspirations or separate.

  • ACCESSIBILITY!!!
  • From Google Docs' comments, adding tests in a similar manner, where they exists in the same "document" but parallel to the code being written
    • Makes sense for unit tests, keeps the test close to the source
    • Doesn't necessarily make sense for integration or e2e testing
    • Maybe easier to manually trigger a test related to exactly what code you're writing
  • Ability to generate unit tests for a selected function in context menu
    • A table should appear to enter input and expected output pairs quickly
  • Ability to show import connection within project visually
    • This could be done by drawing connections between files or functions in the tree view. This would make it easier for people to get their bearings in new big projects.
  • Connections could also be drawn between functions that call each other in the tree view. The connections could be animated to show the execution flow of the program.
  • Ability to inline statements contained in called functions into the callee function for debugging.
    • The value of expressions can be shown at the end of the line like in the Inventing on Principle talk
    • This would give a clear overview of the execution and should make it easy to pinpoint the line where the bug originates.
    • That specific line can then be right clicked to go to the actual function.
    • Having to jump around between different functions and files is unnecessary and makes it difficult to see the forest through the trees.
  • "Error mode" where the editor jumps you to the next error
    • Similar in theory to diff tools that jump you to the next merge conflict
  • dependency recommendation