[koolhaas]

Side note: interactive debugging is kinda inherent with the flow based programming paradigm. The program is continuously executing with every new action and immediately reflecting the current state. To program with it is to debug. If there’s an error with a component, it turns red and everything down stream breaks as well.

[hermitcrab]

Yes, I think that sort of instant feedback is very helpful and is probably one of the reasons Excel is so popular.

[taeric]

That falls on is face at scale. There is a reason not every bullet in a gun is a tracer bullet.

[koolhaas]

Flow paradigm doesn’t claim scale though. It’s about being a DSL for specific environments, often visually-oriented software like CAD or interactive art, which doesn’t have heavy 10K person team requirements.