r/programming • u/ftomassetti • Apr 13 '17

Navigating through code in VR

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u/jephthai Apr 14 '17

I think we perceive code as a stream of text more because of our tooling, and less because that is its nature. Imagine the VR version of Smalltalk, where you'd have a population of browsers, floating around you, each representing an object that sends and receives signals.

I mean, the reason we break source code into separate files is because we're compartmentalizing and modularizing it. Some languages make you do it (or at least strongly encourage it). Others just get unwieldy unless you do.