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Re: Nodes.io – A new way to create with code

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I somehow fail to understand what this is, but am impressed by it nonetheless. Is this purely for animation designers with coding skills? I thought animation work is done in editors with even less code required usually, but for me as a developer this seems more approachable.

I could not look at the advanced examples on my iPad though.

Re: Nodes.io – A new way to create with code

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I'm so sick of this ironic brutalist web design. That HTML blue. It's so frequently paired with that gross salmon color.

I'm fine with brutalist web design, what I can't stand is low font-weights and small font sizes, like assuming all of your readers are on a 4K screen with the eyes of a 20 year old.

On a more substantive note, this looks really neat. However, as a data scientist of sorts I've found that what people really want is not some sort of interactive 3D visualization, but a well-computed chart showing a sort of natural experiment (e.g. the results of an A/B test) with the right axes. Has anyone used a 3D visualization outside of tech demos? I guess the NYTimes has some neat stuff that's useful.

Re: Nodes.io – A new way to create with code

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Looks like a new assembly of old ideas that’s different enough it might do better for some purposes. Very exciting.

I was about to start prototyping some tool ideas I had in it, but I can’t find it’s source or license info anywhere. By Googling, I found the GitHub repo [0], but it’s empty of code and looks to be used for issue tracking only.

I can’t see something that’s trying to be an ecosystem being very successful without being open (see: every closed-source language/runtime ever).

I couldn’t even find any example code. I tried clicking the examples on the home page. I even tried clicking “Playground” and it wasn’t a link. The only CTA I could find was “Download Nodes”!

[0] https://github.com/nodes-io/nodes-io

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