There is a lot of interesting work on program as non-text/model at Unison: https://www.unison-lang.org/learn/the-big-idea/#richer-codebase-tools https://www.un

There is a lot of interesting work on program as non-text/model at Unison: https://www.unison-lang.org/learn/the-big-idea/#richer-codebase-tools https://www.unison-lang.org/learn/the-big-idea/#richer-codeb... Until these ideas go into mainstream, treesitter has resulted in some interesting improvements to e.g Neovim. I use it extensively for AST based selection/navigation and along with conceal I can hide/transform a lot of noise characters in text source code.