This makes me wonder why there aren’t “code editors” out there?

At first, I read “code editor” as “software that writes code”. Then my brain engaged and I saw the parallel you were drawing between a writer-editor relationship and programmer-${EDITOR}.

Off the top of my head, “peer critique during code-review” comes the closest to such a role. It feels insufficient, as an isomorphism of the writer-editor relationship, due to the distance of the critique from the point of origin. That is, of course, if a code review ever occurs in the first place.

There’s a whole additional article to be written on this same topic about JavaScript, CSS, and HTML and how you can use them together to produce less code.

My brain has already spawned a child process devoted to this idea. Even if nothing comes of it, I am glad I found this post; a surfeit of brain-food.

I often compare programming with writing. The same principles apply. More often than not, less is more. Every word should have a meaning and a purpose and every sentence or function should be edited for clarity, redundancy and correctness.

This makes me wonder why there aren’t “code editors” out there?