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Natto.dev – A Canvas for JavaScript

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Re: Natto.dev – A Canvas for JavaScript

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post #14

This site's negativity/nit picking is sometimes incredible. This is an incredibly cool product that is by their own words "very alpha" and people jump to "OMG i know what hijacking is so I'll point it out" for attention. It's kind of a tired trope. This is obviously not an intentional hacking of users but rather a quite harmless bug in the implementation of an undo/permalinking feature. Great job to the devs and I ho…

That’s probably a meme at this point, another post on the front page has the exact same complaint : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26791997

Re: Natto.dev – A Canvas for JavaScript

#44
Hi all! Developer here before first coffee

I'm actively working on natto.dev and it really is in "preview". I'm excited about the future of programming and having a canvas to explore it on. still looking for "crazier" ideas - my favorite current one is dragging a column out of a table. https://twitter.com/_paulshen/status/1366801887341649924

The more I work on it, the more confident I am that there's something there. If you try it, I'd love to hear your feedback!

natto takes inspiration from a whole lot of work. non-exhaustive list: Yahoo Pipes, Excel, design tools (Figma), Observable, darklang, GToolkit, SmallTalk (repl-driven), http://joshuahhh.com/projects/pane/, http://www.lamdu.org/, https://futureofcoding.org/catalog/

As much as I love natto (the food), I'll likely rename it at some point. Pronunciation hit rate has been 0%

Re: Natto.dev – A Canvas for JavaScript

#47

Hi all! Developer here before first coffee I'm actively working on natto.dev and it really is in "preview". I'm excited about the future of programming and having a canvas to explore it on. still looking for "crazier" ideas - my favorite current one is dragging a column out of a table. https://twitter.com/_paulshen/status/1366801887341649924 The more I work on it, the more confident I am that there's something there.…

Very cool site! You should be proud!

Re: Natto.dev – A Canvas for JavaScript

#48

Hi all! Developer here before first coffee I'm actively working on natto.dev and it really is in "preview". I'm excited about the future of programming and having a canvas to explore it on. still looking for "crazier" ideas - my favorite current one is dragging a column out of a table. https://twitter.com/_paulshen/status/1366801887341649924 The more I work on it, the more confident I am that there's something there.…

I'm a very visual thinker, and this is very cool!

Thank you very much for making it!

Re: Natto.dev – A Canvas for JavaScript

#49
post #14

This site's negativity/nit picking is sometimes incredible. This is an incredibly cool product that is by their own words "very alpha" and people jump to "OMG i know what hijacking is so I'll point it out" for attention. It's kind of a tired trope. This is obviously not an intentional hacking of users but rather a quite harmless bug in the implementation of an undo/permalinking feature. Great job to the devs and I ho…

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Re: Natto.dev – A Canvas for JavaScript

#50

Hi all! Developer here before first coffee I'm actively working on natto.dev and it really is in "preview". I'm excited about the future of programming and having a canvas to explore it on. still looking for "crazier" ideas - my favorite current one is dragging a column out of a table. https://twitter.com/_paulshen/status/1366801887341649924 The more I work on it, the more confident I am that there's something there.…

The Yahoo Pipes inspiration is obvious I think - which is a good thing. How do you judge the changes between your service and it? As far as I can see, you picked the code heavy approach, while Pipes was more "here is a block that does X". Natto feels to me more like programming, with Pipes being more about composing fixed functions to manipulate data. Conscious choice? Worth the complexity? Do I judge that wrong?
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