Eron Woolf and Andreas Kling Talking About the Ladybird Web Browser

The world won't let him do anything except browser engineering.

See https://ladybird.org/

Can't someone pay him to do a syntax-directed editing framework? I tried to do one in JavaScript once but I just couldn't get the DOM to represent abstract syntax. The way HTML/CSS is designed doesn't allow it. You want to be able model abstract syntax with something like <div> tags, but there is no way I could see to address the elements in a "hierarchical way".

The conclusion I came to in the end is that it has all been designed to represent concrete representations. What I wanted was a system which would allow editor operations to develop an abstract syntax (think lisp s-exps) which would be presented to JavaScript code as native tuples of tuples. But the DOM is all about concrete styles attatched to <div> elements either by id or class, but what I wanted was different things to be attached to the elements depending on the context.  For example, if the focus point is on the condition of an if, then else block then you want it rendered as a menu of boolean expression elements, but otherwise it should be rendered as text. 

I think Pi Calculus is the way to do this, because in that you represent data as processes. See Programming Channel Processes and Robin's The Polyadic π-Calculus: a Tutorial.

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