Software physics

I like Andy Matuschak's use of the word "physics" to describe a set of rules in software tn his talk on the possibilities LLMs open up for programming. Two examples: > CodeMirror defines a rough physics of the medium: basic models for text, state, and selection, with transactional updates. > So, by way of generalizing from CodeMirror: could we define a physics of reading environments—one which…