Re:Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck
by wires on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @12:43PM
(#19028244)
Great points,
> scalability and maintainability
> easy for very small examples but it doesn't scale.
this is very true, that is why we do it differently; we clearly define the semantics of our diagrams and take guidance from category theory in this. this is different from other graphical languages; we try to assume the minimum but then guarantee you that some stuff is always preserved.
think of it like deterministic, pure functional programming, but with diagrams.
> usually lacks good mechanisms for abstraction, reuse and hierarchical structure.
> f versioning, diffing or merging
very important points, we try to address this by having everything based on immutable, persistent data structures with built in content addressing; similar to git for instance.
diffing and merging is very complicated and still research but there are many hints that this can be done
> scalability and maintainability > easy for very small examples but it doesn't scale.
this is very true, that is why we do it differently; we clearly define the semantics of our diagrams and take guidance from category theory in this. this is different from other graphical languages; we try to assume the minimum but then guarantee you that some stuff is always preserved.
think of it like deterministic, pure functional programming, but with diagrams.
> usually lacks good mechanisms for abstraction, reuse and hierarchical structure. > f versioning, diffing or merging
very important points, we try to address this by having everything based on immutable, persistent data structures with built in content addressing; similar to git for instance.
diffing and merging is very complicated and still research but there are many hints that this can be done