[Hendrikto]

> Textual syntax can be implemented a layer up, if the input to the interpreter/compiler is not text but a data structure.

If you designed the languages and interpreters/compilers around it. Neither Python nor Javascript are, though.

[fiddlerwoaroof]

My point isn’t that existing languages are designed this way, but it wouldn’t be hard to retrofit this onto an existing language. Especially one like JavaScript that already has relatively widely-used transpilers