Re:Folk wisdom on visual programming
by bmitc on Friday July 02, 2021 @01:02AM
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Thanks for the mention of Flow. I have heard of it but haven’t used it. I am admittedly still getting my feet wet with Elixir, so I’m still learning the ecosystem, which has a pretty steep learning curve. The language itself is quite nice and the tooling is pleasant. You just “mix <this>” and “mix <that>” to working programs.
Part of my issue is the reverse shock of what text based programmers experience when moving to a visual language since I’m coming to Elixir from LabVIEW. I missing seeing certain things but am becoming accustomed to it. I’ve done text based programming a decent amount but never day to day on large code bases (and I’m new to Elixir having primarily used F# and Racket for projects and some Python for work against my will).
Part of my issue is the reverse shock of what text based programmers experience when moving to a visual language since I’m coming to Elixir from LabVIEW. I missing seeing certain things but am becoming accustomed to it. I’ve done text based programming a decent amount but never day to day on large code bases (and I’m new to Elixir having primarily used F# and Racket for projects and some Python for work against my will).