Title: What you care about as a programmer is what your code does, right? Basically whatever the compiler has after lexical analysis (except for comments maybe).<p>So why do we bother with all that coding style stuff if we could make an IDE that edits the program itself instead of text? (I get that text is a universal format, but that doesn&#x27;t mean we have to edit it directly.)<p>Instead of editing text you could choose to &quot;declare a function&quot;, &quot;rename this identifier&quot; or &quot;call function x with y and z arguments&quot; and then save it with some coding style.<p>Is there such an IDE? I know what I&#x27;m describing is pretty much visual programming, but I mean for &quot;text&quot; languages.
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