I've read this question mentioning Code Bubbles and I've watched their video presentation.
The video is impressive, and does seem a little bit futuristic, but apparently it's somewhat real.
But that kept me thinking... Would a developer really use such tool?
We, as developers, are used to deal with code files, organizing them in directories, in one way or another, some common IDE (for those language that has them).
It would be a great leap to use something like Code Bubbles, as they propose.
I, personally, am not sure if I could work in such environment... although I think I would just need some adjusting... but I really don't see my mind working out the kinks of it.
What are your thoughts on this?
For languages like C# and Java where the actual organisation of code files and blocks (methods, etc) is fairly rigid (even more so in Java than C#) then something that provides a novel "view" of the code could probably work. You could allow the tool to organise your code with one class per file, methods sorted by visibility, or whatever coding standard you wanted, and the tool could handle it all in such a way that someone could still come along and look at the "raw" files and make sense of it all.
It would be a problem for a language like C++ where you can basically do whatever you like...