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Have you heard of https://dion.systems/ that was linked here recently? They are working towards going away from text as the source format.

It remains to be seen whether or not it is a good idea and/or if it will succeed if it is.

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I guess in something like Dion, you have a source format that doesn't allow syntax errors, since you are not editing something that can be in an invalid state (necessarily).