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timroediger | 4 years ago

Nice to see another cracking the 'nodes and strings' style of programming. However, as is I don't see a strong future for this one. It looks like it has replicated the ideas of many which have gone before without significant evolution. The long history of 'nodes and strings' for general programming shows that it isn't going to catch on in the current form.

Some problems in no particular order: * The presentation logic and execution logic of nodes are mixed together in the same python class. * Information density. Nodes and strings just can't fit enough on the screen. * Independent editor which doesn't integrate with other code editing tools. All the niceties of an established text editor or IDE have to be given up. * In my opinion 'get var' and 'set var' leak too much of the text based code paradigm into the flow paradigm. * It only outputs python, which already has a low barrier to entry. Outputting C or Rust or LLVM IR would make the product much more interesting.

However, after all the criticism, keep going. There is a future hidden somewhere inside this type of coding, it just hasn't been discovered yet.

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