> Just serialize stuff to text if somebody wants to "edit" and then parse it back when they are done. What happens to the text in between of course is the programmer's problem.

I think that's working against the way that a lot of people write code.

You need things like syntax highlighting and code completion even while typing something like "my_var = " on a line. A normal parser doesn't work here, and bailing out to make it the programmer's problem leaves the programmer with a lot of work