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Re:Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck by openfuture on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @11:32AM (#19027629)
Lots of people seem to think that Visual / Textual programming is an either or. The idea behind statebox is to build a bijection between a (structured text)-editor and a Petri net that shows the program diagrammatically, editing either will edit also change the other so you can pick the perspective that best fits the change you'd like to make.

The original paper defining Petri nets was intended as a new foundation information systems based on communicating automata so that the fallacious "global state" idea is not a prerequisite. It makes a lot of sense for there to be a programming language based on this formal system for expressing computation.

There has also been a lot of progress in understanding the mathematical structure of Petri nets which is something like a symmetric monoidal category but I'm no expert so fact check me.

Re:Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck by zozbot123 on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @11:43AM (#19027717)
That's nice, but all I see on the statebox.org website is vaporware. Where's the MVP? Even just having one component available (structured text editor or diagrammatic editor for the underlying Petri net) would help a lot.
Re:Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck by wires on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @05:12PM (#19030333)
we are working on the MVP, getting there, this wasn't supposed to blow up yet, don't want to give any wrong impressions.

currently a lot of our efforts are going into a core component of statebox, https://github.com/typedefs it is library similar to protocol buffers, but it fits well with proof assistants / functional languages / category theory