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It's taken a while but after some conversations I had about making a structural editor that wasn't all keyboard shortcuts I finally have something to share.
I keep calling this a visual ui but that's probably not accurate as all the editors where visual.
It's a point and click discoverable ui for the structural editor. And here I walk through using it to build a Fibonacci sequence

<https://vimeo.com/1043702197?share=copy#t=0>

In this world, I don't see the point of having a concise syntax anymore. Is the idea that you can still do whatever you want using shortcuts and typing?

You can still use shortcuts and "typing".

I'm not pushing to save key presses with a concise syntax. I still think that you want reasonably high information density with larger programs.
Is there a way you would change the syntax?

Not specifically, just noting a parallel to block based environments where there is no upside for the blocks to be concise in the way text syntax tries to be to minimize typing. But if you want to do both, that makes perfect sense, I'd leave it as is.