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I believe that eventually software development may move in general to structured serializations rather than plain text. The main thing holding that back is just that programming is defined by cryptic colored text and they are afraid they won't look technical enough if they don't stick to that. I am a programmer myself btw and of course I use text editors.

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Source code is a structured serialization. And it also happens to be plain text.

Edit: or were you referring to data rather than logic?

If data can be code, code can be data too. There are people who hated react for mixing view with logic.

Possibly another example of the common mistake of web developers - extending "don't put business logic in views" to "don't put logic in views". That leads to invention of the silly things called "template languages", which desperately try (and fail) to avoid being programming languages, and they create a mess because they manually glue HTML (which is a tree) from dumb strings.

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