Mr. Spock Does Not Code in ASCII

Why the future of programming looks nothing like a text file It&rsquo;s 2026, and we&rsquo;re still typing if (x > 0) { return true; } into monospaced text editors like it&rsquo;s a teletype terminal in 1957. We&rsquo;ve reinvented every other human-computer interface — touch, voice, gesture, spatial computing — and yet the act of programming remains stubbornly anchored to sequential lines of…