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I haven’t fully wrapped my head around this. It’s a moldable editor where different types of data can each have their own view.
https://github.com/samuelmtimbo/unit
- A code drawn in unit is simply a Directed Graph.
- Programming can be partially performed by Gesture and by Voice.
If you haven't used Colab/Juypter Notebooks yet, I highly recommend you try it. It's "notebook" style interface, and allows you to run "cells" in arbitrary order.
The other interesting interface I've come across is https://gibber.cc/ and https://glicol.org/ which are both music coding environments though they have slightly different UI so are both worth exploring to get a sense. What I imagine is an extension of their approach to make going from a (Python) REPL to working code more seamless. My workflow is often play in a REPL until I get it working, and then try and reconstruct the right order of code back in an editor. There's got to be a better way of going from REPL to code than that, but I've not found it yet.
> I'm not sure anyone's actually using it, but there are some good ideas in there.
I guess it's kind of cheating, but they wrote YouTrack in MPS; they used to cite that in the footer, but I guess it was removed cause it was an implementation detail
I reached out to them to ask "what does that mean, written in MPS?" and they said they had a DSL for issue tracking that essentially generated executable YouTrack builds
Interestingly, Workday has a repo for MPS code reviews, although stale: https://github.com/Workday/mps-code-reviewer#readme
Not exactly "experimental", considering the Unix heritage, but -- line editors.
"I've seen [visual] editors like that, but I don't feel a need for them. I don't want to see the state of the file when I'm editing." -- Ken Thompson, on the superiority of ed to visual editors. Summarized by Peter Salus in A Quarter Century of UNIX (Addison-Wesley, 1994).
Definitely a blast from the past, but I do think line editors may force one to write simpler programs -- or to think in smaller chunks, as opposed to (doom)scrolling or moving about incrementally on a large screen.
Rob Pike's sam editor has an interesting command language. You're not limited to thinking in "lines" as in ed or sed; rather, the whole file is a giant string that you manipulate using regular expressions, external pipes, etc: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/sam_lang_tutorial/sam_tut.pdf
Its predecessor, qed, is also interesting, extremely powerful, but it seems to have a much steeper learning curve. I have used sam quite a bit, but not qed. https://github.com/phonologus/QED/raw/master/doc/qed-tutoria...
I wrote a living document interface. Nowadays it's probably similar to notion.
The idea was you could write code into it and see all the data structures of the code you wrote. There's a screencast and the code is available but broken. It's written in Angular 1. There was a cool feature where you could select different things on the screen for searching for an operation for them to merge them together.
https://camo.githubusercontent.com/3064a94d00812c1373c4eb3b2...
https://github.com/samsquire/ideas#4-living-documents
I've made a UI editor for React that allows you to edit any element visually but commits changes right to your code the same way you'd do it with a code editor.
https://github.com/impulse-oss/impulse
I’ve always thought https://enso.org/ looked cool. It’s a functional language that has both a text representation and a visual representation as a graph that you can edit directly. I still haven’t played with it much though
Some good ones pops up in Projectional Programming [1] once in a while. The pinned thread links to the structure-editors github list [2] too.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/nosyntax/
[2] https://github.com/yairchu/awesome-structure-editors