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by goatlover 3347 days ago
I mean in being able to generate source code as text files at any point, or update from text files, since that's what programmers are used to, and there are so much of the tooling is built around that. You're not going to be putting an image on github.
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I mean in being able to generate source code as text files at any point, or update from text files

It has been done many times. There was a Camp Smalltalk initiative to standardize such a mechanism back in the early 2000's. Anyone could code something up that does this for a particular dialect in a matter of minutes.