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Re:We need visual programming. No, not like that by emporas on Monday July 15, 2024 @06:40AM (#40966660)
Eventual or gradual typing could leave everyone happy.

On the premise of the article, maybe the key to representing a program visually is a very expressive (and strong) type system. There could be a way to derive some Visual Types from good old regular types, and diagram the visual types in any level of granularity one desires.

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Re:We need visual programming. No, not like that by marcosdumay on Monday July 15, 2024 @11:36AM (#40968810)
Instead, gradual typing seems to always make everybody as unhappy as they can get.

Just like visual programming, it looks like we are doing gradual typing very wrongly.

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Re:We need visual programming. No, not like that by emporas on Monday July 15, 2024 @03:07PM (#40970588)
If Typescript counts as gradual typing, which i think it does, then many seem to be very happy using it. I have skimmed over more than 1000 blogs of HN, didn't see any posts about disliking Typescript, and many people use it.

Doesn't Typescript offer seamless interoperability with vanilla Javascript?

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