Comment by markm208

"Files are not the best representation of code, just a convenient serialization."

I agree. Files (and version control systems) leak a tremendous amount of valuable information. They are a very '20th century' technology.

I'm working on a tool that behaves like a distributed version control system (branching and merging) but stores more fine-grained information about the programming process. This information can be played back and developers can tell a story about why the code is the way it is:

http://www.storytellersoftware.com