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by ScottFree 2420 days ago
Why store it as a (text) file at all? Why not store the code in a database? Or as binary? Then you can store metadata pertaining to the code and not just the code itself. Unreal blueprints are an interesting way of structuring code and providing a componetized api. It would be interesting if they were more closely integrated with the code itself. Then you could manipulate data flows, code and even do debugging from inside the same interface.

Yes, this is all pie in the sky stuff, but it's interesting to think about.

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I have been toying with the idea to store programming projects in a single sqlite3 database butt never seen enough value to actually pursue it.

As you mentioned though, it's interesting to think about.