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Nik Lopin

Why do we still think in files in programming? They add an extra level of thinking "where should I put my classes and functions"

Are there researches or attempts to move away from file-thinking? I imagine work ing in a file-less IDE, navigating between functions, classes and definition without thinking where they live.

It requires rebuilding a lot of tooling too, because most of them are about files, not code.

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Nepo

@lopin I've always been fascinated about tools that let you think of code in 2d. Like, Excel as a programming language let's you move information up, down, left or right and I think that's cool. It let's you cluster data/operations in different sections of the document

More recently, I saw this post about haystackeditor.com/, maybe you'll like it!
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