News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming. Parent comment

Re:Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual pro... by some_account on Friday May 25, 2018 @01:57AM (#17150973)
It's a very nice idea but these tools always have limitations that become super annoying after a while.

Programming is total freedom to do what you want and these tools try to make it look like you cab drag and drop data flows together and it will just work in a optimal way. And it will at first, until your first special or odd requirement needs to somehow be implemented in that tool.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual pro... by DonHopkins on Friday May 25, 2018 @04:16PM (#17157514)
Snap! is a visual "blocks" programming language like Scratch, but with the full power of Scheme:

First class functions.

Visual lexical closures.

User defined blocks including control structures.

Macros and special forms.

Call with current continuation!

Written in JavaScript and easy to integrate with JavaScript libraries.

https://snap.berkeley.edu

Adding Machine Learning Blocks to Snap!

https://s4scoding.com/adding-machine-learning-blocks-to-snap...

https://project.ecraft2learn.eu/

https://github.com/ecraft2learn/ai

https://ecraft2learn.github.io/ai/

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual pro... by dcre on Friday May 25, 2018 @11:02AM (#17154359)
"total freedom" — never heard of it
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual pro... by murukesh_s on Friday May 25, 2018 @03:28AM (#17151392)
Why can't you use a coding widget(not sure if this tool supports it) in those special cases? In that way common things are super easy and you can also tackle those corner cases as well.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual pro... by hacker_9 on Friday May 25, 2018 @04:11AM (#17151565)
But who is writing the widget? If it's a programmer, then why is he using this tool when most of this stuff is one liners in code anyway? And if it's a non-programmer, he now can't do something that he may have still been able to do in excel.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual pro... by derrikcurran on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:10AM (#17153289)
A non-developer who has access to developers. A developer can be paid to write the widget, which would likely be cheaper, easier, and faster than paying a developer for every minor change. It really depends on context. In a larger organization, for example, the user might have access to plenty of developers but need to open a ticket and wait forever every time they need something.
[ Parent | on HN ]