Conception

It's cool to see more people thinking about and experimenting with this stuff. I've done a similar attempt with my Conception project, https://github.com/shurcooL/Conception#demonstration One reason "all code editors look the same" is because they're really mostly "text editors" with some coding-functionality on top. And as tikhonj explains, they display text prominently like image editors display images. I used to think writing code as text was an inefficient legacy decision and that moving up to working with higher level concepts would be a big improvement, since we usually think about code at a higher level than an ascii-character-at-a-time. However, the limiting factor is the input hardware we use to interact with computers. The most efficient input device is a keyboard, and text is most efficient to manipulate with a keyboard.

Compare: https://github.com/shurcooL/Conception-go - Go, 7'500 lines https://github.com/shurcooL/Conception - C++, 15'000 lines Which would you rather work with? You can look at the commit activity to see my preference.