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Most of the time it is hard to convince "normal" people that text is the end game.

Text is all powerful, because you can encode any level of abstraction with text only. If you need access to nitty gritty details having text is god send, having to work on high level also fine you can just do that wrapping lower level stuff in descriptive abstractions.

We also already have tooling for dealing with text that go as far back as computing and if we leave a bit of space for interpretation even longer.

With GIT/VIM/AWK/GREP/SED you can be in charge of vast universes created in you mind and share/collaborate on those with others. While image is worth 1000s of words - options to manipulate/share/collaborate on text are so much better in every conceivable way.



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