[sarma912]

Cool idea! Was wondering if you could elaborate a little on what type of new dev tools would benefit from this. One of the prototypes I worked on was bidirectional code gen for no-code tools but it felt like it might not be the most useful thing.

[lucasluitjes]

Yeah, bidirectional code gen for no-code tools was our use case too (there's a demo video in the post if you're interested). I saw a bidirectional no-code platform called Vision X the other day, people are definitely working on it. Are the prototypes you worked on online somewhere? It sounds interesting!

There are a bunch of ideas for dev tools in the original post. For example if you integrate with linters, you could define more complex code smells without all the AST juggling. Upgrading rails apps (or other frameworks that have a similarly well-defined structure) to new versions might work, by defining monocles for old the old and new version.

[sarma912]

It's not online but a little bit of that initial work went into greppo.io. I was thinking more in terms of severless platforms and not dev tools in general. However the theme of my thinking is that I don't know if there is a biz model here. As an open source tool, for sure!