Re:The future is fewer people writing code?
by humanrebar on Friday July 22, 2016 @05:10PM
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> I thoroughly hated LabView when I had to program in it, but it did convince me that a graphical programming language could work
That's funny. I came away with the opposite opinion. Text is much better at describing details and it's much easier to be consumed by various things: people, editors, analysis tools, web apps, test engines, code generators, code transformation tools, ... I could go on.
Languages like LabView never have a complete toolchain (Prove me wrong by posting a small piece of editable LabView in a reply to this HN comment). They work well as domain specific languages, but that's about it.
That's funny. I came away with the opposite opinion. Text is much better at describing details and it's much easier to be consumed by various things: people, editors, analysis tools, web apps, test engines, code generators, code transformation tools, ... I could go on.
Languages like LabView never have a complete toolchain (Prove me wrong by posting a small piece of editable LabView in a reply to this HN comment). They work well as domain specific languages, but that's about it.