including some long-awaited updates to the experience of editing theme and plugin files in the admin.

Contributors are looking at adding a nested folder structure that will offer access to files deeper than two levels. They are also aiming to add better warnings for users who are editing themes and plugins, an improvement which Choyce described as “graduating from cowboy coding school.”

Sigh. Users shouldn't be editing their theme files anyway and no developer worthy of the name should be doing so on the live site. The entire feature should be scrapped.

It's ironic to the point of self-parody that a feature that makes it easier to edit the code of a live site is described as “graduating from cowboy coding school.” when developing on a live site is precisely one of those things that defines cowboy coding.

Code on a dev server. Test. Deploy to Live.