Ballerina – concurrent, typed language with textual and graphical syntax

Re:Ballerina – concurrent, typed language with textual and g... by krylon on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @07:34AM (#14701544)

I currently have the "pleasure" of building a SharePoint workflow, which is done by clicking together building blocks in a graphical builder (running as part of Visual Studio).

Maybe I am generalizing to hastily, but I absolutely despise the experience. In theory it sounds like a nice concept, in practice it tends to make trivial tasks exceedingly complicated[1]. And what would be a screen of code is several screens full of a block diagram. It is possible to zoom out, but text gets unreadable fairly quickly.

[1] To be fair, I think that is probably more of SharePoint problem, whose complexity would be hilarious if I did not have to deal with it.

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Re:Ballerina – concurrent, typed language with textual and g... by onetokeoverthe on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @07:43AM (#14701592)

You'd probably appreciate the movie Zero Theorem. The hero, a coder, is doing the same procedure...it's by the Monty Python people.

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Re:Ballerina – concurrent, typed language with textual and g... by krylon on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @10:54AM (#14702839)

Thank you!

Terry Gilliam has made some great movies (although I found Tideland too intense to watch). This one is now on the top of my to-watch list.

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