Comment by nubinetwork
17 hours ago
One problem I can see with this is that the files are typed out, from top to bottom... People don't really code like that... They write functions and jump around between files as they add functionality...
17 hours ago
One problem I can see with this is that the files are typed out, from top to bottom... People don't really code like that... They write functions and jump around between files as they add functionality...
Yeah, good point. To expand on that: this actually started out as an animated typist for classic literary works in the public domain (some of which are in the Library), like The Machine Stops or The War of the Worlds.
That’s why, if you look at the IDEs, there’s a WordStar one. At the time, having it write from top to bottom made sense.
Now that I've expanded it to handle code, it would basically require building or integrating some kind of AST so a bit more work than I want to put in right now. Maybe I’ll include it in a future update!