[panstromek]

To be clear, I don't think we should get rid of text completely, or use some drag&drop UI or some visual model. It's just the program should be defined by the semantic model first and then viewed/edited however it is practical (often by text again).

And we already do this in many places - many common code changes we do are already automated by IDE (which maintains the model in memory), so we don't edit the text directly and we don't even think about it that way, we think about how we want to transform the model (ie. extract a function), not about how the text moves between files.

> Text so far is the best thing we have because text can be analyzed formally and computed with by computers.

This doesn't make too much sense to me. Using the approach I talk about would actually make that much easier, because tools wouldn't need to parse the text and work directly on the semantic representation (i.e. it's much easier to query a database than extract the information from textual sources)