[mjdowney]

I think if we divorce the idea of direct data manipulation from exclusively non-textual representation, we are slowly making progress in this direction through traditional notebooks (e.g. Jupyter) and notebook successors like Clerk (see Moldable Live Programming With Clerk[1]).

These are not the sweeping, fundamental changes that Bret Victor envisioned, but we are collectively moving toward more interactive programming. Imagine modern web development without hot reloading.

Clojure is the language where I see this happening most, and which is seeing the most expansion toward "visualization and interactivity as part of a the backend dev experience".

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bs3QX92kYA