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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 spec…
The problem with visual spaghetti is the same as with monoliths, lack of understanding how to modularize the code.
I think applying digital circuit design best practices to such tools would help more people to properly modularize their boxes.
I'm so confused. "Build interactive web apps" "Create bespoke tools" Any examples besides weird shapes?
Maybe weird shapes is the future of web? Forget about JS and React. This is future old man.
I'm so confused. "Build interactive web apps" "Create bespoke tools" Any examples besides weird shapes?
Maybe weird shapes is the future of web? Forget about JS and React. This is future old man.
Like the old saying: During a gold rush, sell shovels.
I would "kill" for a text editor/IDE/REPL shaped as a spreadsheet where each cell is a block of code with 2 possible views (text or result) linkable to other cells. This "spreadsheet" would be programming language agnostic (each cell could use a different language) and I could organize/format my cells (location, colors, size, etc) as I wish.
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?
Unpopular idea here (from a hobbyist programmer). I would "kill" for a text editor/IDE/REPL shaped as a spreadsheet where each cell is a block of code with 2 possible views (text or result) linkable to other cells. This "spreadsheet" would be programming language agnostic (each cell could use a different language) and I could organize/format my cells (location, colors, size, etc) as I wish.
Do you have a draft drawing of the concept or could you otherwise elaborate a bit more?
How does it compare? What's new?
Certainly could say somewhere that it's one of these node-based visual programming languages made for artists. Well the node part is in the name at least :).