The problem of bloating of textual langauges

[emil14]

I was watching this "algebraic effects" videos about "Koka" and I though - maybe it's the fundamental problem about textual languages. Instead of "querying" the program and somehow visualize it we force user (programmer) to always look at specific part of the program (we call that part "explicit").

Many features problem

That's why having many features in languages (which means having ability/need to configure many parts of program entities) lead to hard-to-read source code.

Visual view and querying thinking

So instead think about program as just some structure that can be queried and somehow viewed. We should be able to configure what and how we wanna see about the program. Textual source code is just too primitive.

CSS Dev-tools analogy

This is not the original though but think about this. You can specify in CSS almost nothing and yet see every possible part of model in dev-tools. There's btw ways to filter view and see exactly what you interested in.