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

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Post by ALittleLight »

eyelidlessness wrote: post #17
punkbit wrote: post #12

Nodes.io is looking great! *For other HN readers: If you're going to leave a message, can you ask yourself, if it's really worth to be so negative? *

I very seldom share anything of my own here for this reason. It’s cool to have high expectations but it’s really a shame how much people just dump on everything without any consideration for the intent or level of effort that went into something. It’s disheartening. I have a project I’ve just launched that I’m incredibly proud of, with all the warts a just launched thing might have, and I’ve barely mentioned it here…

I think the negative comments are inversely proportional to the language used to hype the product or project. If you make an app that points out carcinogens in the user's grocery list, and explain that your project's mission is curing cancer then people are going to have a lot of negative things to say about how this approach will never do that, etc. Conversely, if you describe it tightly as what it is there will be less room for people to have negative takes and more for people to appreciate the project for what it is.

I encourage you to share your project. Negative comments, even if they happen, won't diminish your accomplishments.

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

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Post by viraptor »

fao_ wrote: post #4

40-second video that lagged so much it was unplayable on my X200 that runs discord fine, and can have 300 tabs open in firefox without a sweat. Obviously, we're off to a good start.

An embedded Vimeo video lagging most likely has nothing to do with the power of your laptop. It's just slow due to whatever issues Vimeo is having.

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

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Post by rgovostes »

Tangentially related, I've been thinking about how it is somewhat difficult to describe state machines in regular textual code, and it would be nice to have a drag-and-drop visual interface for mapping out the states and transitions, then tie regular code to the transition events.

Is there anything like that out there? Or a good open source diagramming library that might lend itself to prototyping this?

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

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Post by strogonoff »

rgovostes wrote: post #38

Tangentially related, I've been thinking about how it is somewhat difficult to describe state machines in regular textual code, and it would be nice to have a drag-and-drop visual interface for mapping out the states and transitions, then tie regular code to the transition events. Is there anything like that out there? Or a good open source diagramming library that might lend itself to prototyping this?

You might be interested in XState[0] and its visualizer[1]. It is not drag and drop, but it does provide a nice visualization that can help debug state logic. I imagine it’s possible to extend it to support visual manipulation and code generation.

Project is JS/TS-specific, however.

[0] https://github.com/davidkpiano/xstate

[1] https://xstate.js.org/viz/?gist=bbcb4379b36edea0458f597e5eec...

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

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Post by beaconstudios »

looks cool guys! I'm working on something similar (won't be so vulgar as to self-promote on your post though) - it's exciting to see more people exploring this space. I think there's a lot of potential in visual programming going forwards; I know it's been explored before but it feels like smart phones pre-iPhone: lots of entries but no-one has captured the essence of it into a compelling product yet (outside of specialist but great tools like Houdini and UE Blueprints).

Have you shared this with the Future of Coding community (https://futureofcoding.org/)? They're very excited by these kinds of tools.

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