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A comment on Show HN: Flyde – an open-source visual programming language.

Re:Show HN: Flyde – an open-source visual programming language by d--b on Thursday March 07, 2024 @03:41PM (#39634353)
I will tell you the same thing I tell everyone making visual graphs like this:

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make the nodes snap to a larger grid, and have the grid browsable with the keyboard.

I'd rather use Factorio as an interface than an interface where the nodes and edges just float around.

Excel is a DAG that is browsable with the keyboard (Ctrl+[ anyone?), and that's proven very usable.

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Re:Show HN: Flyde – an open-source visual programming language by culopatin on Thursday March 07, 2024 @06:15PM (#39635814)
And I rather have the boxes stay where I put them and make a mess of the lines than have the lines be all clean but every time I add a condition all the boxes reshuffle like ServiceNow does in their visual low code programming stuff
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