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Re: Unit: A visual programming system [video]

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Post by mikewarot »

I'm impressed with the declarative programming model (aka reactive programming), and the ability to compose new blocks/visual components as a result.

It feels like we're finally starting to overcome all that we lost in the decades since VB6/Delphi for Windows.

Re: Unit: A visual programming system [video]

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Post by breadchris »

This is awesome! I have been working on a similar tool. My focus has been keeping as much as possible in a single binary (benefits of using go) so that local development and deployment to production is super easy. It can orchestrate different grpc methods together which is pretty neat. I have been digging using the Protobuf type system to express the data transfer between nodes.

Re: Unit: A visual programming system [video]

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Post by pjmlp »

mikewarot wrote: post #4

I'm impressed with the declarative programming model (aka reactive programming), and the ability to compose new blocks/visual components as a result. It feels like we're finally starting to overcome all that we lost in the decades since VB6/Delphi for Windows.

We never quite lost it, just the startup SV culture lost sight of them,

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/

https://www.outsystems.com/

Or in the game industry,

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.2/en-US/blueprints-visual-sc...

Re: Unit: A visual programming system [video]

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Post by pasc1878 »

pjmlp wrote: post #8
mikewarot wrote: post #4

I'm impressed with the declarative programming model (aka reactive programming), and the ability to compose new blocks/visual components as a result. It feels like we're finally starting to overcome all that we lost in the decades since VB6/Delphi for Windows.

We never quite lost it, just the startup SV culture lost sight of them, https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/ https://www.outsystems.com/ Or in the game industry, https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.2/en-US/blueprints-visual-sc...

Delphi yes but moving to enterprise costing models lost the market.

.Net no they lost because .NET ios not as easy as VB6 - VB6 is more like a GUI shell language linking controls together. Easy to quickly do something but if you need more detail then not a good language you have to write the controls and that requires another language. .Net threw that ease away, if you are at the level of wanting to alter controls then yes it is better but I think having the two languages was better for enterprises. However nowadays the replacement for VB6 is web programming.

There are others like Xojo

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