Fructure: A structured interaction engine in Racket

Fructure is a prototype structure editor, which can currently be used to write & edit small programs in a small subset of scheme/racket. This is a personal project where I'm playing with ideas in editing, programming languages, and interaction design.

Note: now that this is getting some traffic I wanted to put up a disclaimer that some of the code is currently in a bit of a state: I've commented out some things and hacked up some others to smoothen the demo. My immediate plans are - after taking a post-racketcon break and aside from general cleanup - to unhackify the way transforms currently work, properly re-instate variadic parameters for binding forms, and do some profiling and address the current sluggishness.

I wrote a bit about my then-current direction in September 2018, just before beginning my current implementation attempt. I've completed most of what I talk about there, with varying levels of success: Fructure 1 of 2 Fructure 2 of 2. There will soon be some slightly more up-to-date notes via my racketcon slides. For more updates cyberfollow @twitter and @elsewhere. Here's an ongoing dev screenshot dump; check out the chronological overview:

A transform (red) maps the source (the hole) to (->) the target (selection (outlined in red) in menu (also outlined in red))

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