I think of it more as a demonstration of a general principle. There&#x27;s no reason why we shouldn&#x27;t abandon flat text files. Some huge fraction of development shops aren&#x27;t really coding in flat text files anymore -- the IDE being completely essential to the shop&#x27;s process at this point. Many IDEs have to basically parse the source to develop live objects to have their full capability, anyhow. Environments like Smalltalk have been operating without source files for decades now. Instead of source files as we know them, you basically have textual transaction logs for changing the source code database. This even makes the system more powerful, flexible, and robust thank traditional text files.