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Re:Visual Programming – Why It’s a Bad Idea by alexis_read on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @07:36PM (#18499212)
Exactly this. The best example here is NodeRed, Javascript underneath and a dataflow UI on top.

You can get connectors for pretty much anything eg. Raspberry pi robot/ home automation, twitter, http, email, mqtt, SQL, openCV, parallel processing.

The dashboard allows you to create UIs visually, and I've ported it to run on Android + IOS:

https://github.com/alexisread/noreml

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Re:Visual Programming – Why It’s a Bad Idea by alexis_read on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @03:32AM (#18501074)
EDIT: Ran out of time to finish the comment:

Allowing this to run on mobile means that you can develop/monitor systems on mobile, cluster the systemsphone with other nodered instances, and develop mobile apps (the package is basically nodeJs, nodered and a cordova webview which can be hooked up to display the nodered dashboard).

The important things to note here are that the underlying language to the visual DSL is flexible enough to do everything, and standard ways of building visual extensions (aka nodes) exist.

The main thing missing on the Dashboard is a table node, which would allow a much more flexible layout of data (sorting, trees etc).

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