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Nundrum

@nikitonsky I wish we could #sixel or otherwise put images inline with terminals. That might go a long way toward putting diagrams "in" with code.

But using the diagrams for input? At that point it's not just code anymore. There has to be some extra-special tooling to support it. Or a VM. I guess Smalltalk is able to do this. But it certainly changes the nature of code as we typically think of it now. The "side artifact" seems inescapable.

Though maybe something like org-mode fancied up so you could toggle between data representations and diagrams/widgets?

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Niki Tonsky

@Nundrum if you want diagrams the first thing you want to get rid of is terminal. Why do people still try to make it into graphical environment?

Nundrum

@nikitonsky Because it's amazing.

What could replace the terminal? Something that tends toward a heavy-weight IDE.

Top-down or bottom-up? I don't know the right way to approach designing the solution, but I would like to see images embedded in terminals as a test.

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