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Re:Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual pro... by statictype on Thursday May 24, 2018 @10:28PM (#17150195)
I suppose with that logic you don’t even need node red. You could just put your requirements into a .js file.

What’s your buy-in? What are you doing with node red that can’t be done with a text editor and npm?

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Re:Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual pro... by crankylinuxuser on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:44AM (#17153610)
That's certainly reducto-ad-absurdum if iv'e ever seen one.

They're both in the realm of "graphical programming language in the browser". One is a pay-per-$something, and the other is libre/gratis.

And sure, you could use backend js to write scripts to do $thing, but requires a lot of setup to work with different APIs. So absolutely no, js+text editor is nowhere near the same.

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