Hello, The problem is that in most cases non text editor based IDE are not user-friendly/hard to understand/hard to use. We are moving toward AST based tools software side but it will still be a textEditor for the user interface.
I remember there may be something similar to what you are looking for here (Gaucho IDE): http://www.inf.usi.ch/phd/olivero/gaucho/home.html In addition there is the Smart Browser that will be introduced at ESUG ( http://vimeo.com/96091089) tht may be related to what you want. People are working on it currently. But perhaps these 2 projects are quite different. 2014-06-11 11:31 GMT+02:00 Matthew Chadwick <p...@celeriac.net>: > hello, > > It's interesting that in Smalltalk, coding is still done via a text > editor, not by sending messages to objects (except in the background, > parsing & compiling etc). I've been playing with coding by messaging nodes > in the AST with a view to coding this way via Roassal graph visualizations > of object dependencies combined with some nice graphical tools. Has any > work on this way of coding been done before ? What I have in mind is a > keyboard-centric, fast system designed as an alternative to the text > editor, with a focus on top-down style coding. >
