Re:Natto.dev – A Canvas for JavaScript
by onli on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:37AM
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The Yahoo Pipes inspiration is obvious I think - which is a good thing. How do you judge the changes between your service and it? As far as I can see, you picked the code heavy approach, while Pipes was more "here is a block that does X". Natto feels to me more like programming, with Pipes being more about composing fixed functions to manipulate data. Conscious choice? Worth the complexity? Do I judge that wrong?
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Yes, very intentional! I'm taking a JavaScript-first approach. I know JavaScript, you probably know JavaScript, and the browser runs JavaScript. It's not the perfect language but here we are. It has lot of nice qualities!
I consider natto a much?-code approach in realm of no/low-code. Instead of building abstractions (no-code), what if we built new environments and UI for code? I'm spending most time building UI and trying to keep execution abstractions as minimal as possible.