On: We need visual programming. No, not like that

[solarkraft]

I just want an IDE that abstracts my code just enough so that I can work with tokens, not individual characters. I spend way too much time fixing syntax and formatting when moving things around.

[fallingsquirrel → solarkraft]

Maybe give Cursorless a try. Although they mostly show off the voice recognition, it has a keyboard interface too.

It lets you edit with high-level commands like "swap argument a with b", or "move function x before function y".

https://www.cursorless.org/

[almostgotcaught → solarkraft]

You're using the wrong ide then - any serious ide will do exactly that (have an ast representation that it uses for refactoring). Eg jetbrains ides do.