We need visual programming. No, not like that

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Swimlanes.io

#Diagrams #Flowcharts #Flow Charts And Diagrams 7 social mentions

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Flowgorithm

The Whole Code Catalog [1] and Ivan Reese's Visual Programming Codex [2] are great resources in the area. I also have to mention, despite the awful name, Flowgorithm is an EXCELLENT tool for teaching the fundamentals of procedural thinking. [3] One neat thing is you can switch between the flow chart view and the script code view in something like 35 different languages natively (or make your own plugin to convert it to your language of choice!) p.s. If you are used to regular coding, Grasshopper will drive you absolutely freaking bonkers at first, but once you square that it is looping but you have to let the whole program complete before seeing the result, you'll get used to it. [0] https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/4X/e/7/e/e7ebab8c33ec48fe55d09bee2a4c750df618bde2.png [1] https://futureofcoding.org/catalog/ [2] https://github.com/ivanreese/visual-programming-codex.

#Development #Diagrams #Flowcharts 3 social mentions

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BuildShip

Here is our attempt at Visual Programming: BuildShip[0] Top level layer is a no-code box but you can dig in a level deep to look at the code. You can edit the workflow with nocode or lowcode. AI can help with code gen. Plus connected to your database, tools like S3, Postgres, Firebase, Supabase etc and ships in one click to a Cloud platform like Google Cloud. [0]: https://buildship.com/.

#Developer Tools #Productivity #Backend As A Service 3 social mentions

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Medium

#Blogging #Blogging Platform #CMS 2758 social mentions

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Saasufy

The problem with most visual programming is that most platforms avoid making any tradeoffs. A good visual programming tool should abstract away complexity but it can only achieve that by reducing flexibility. If you're going to give people a visual tool that is as complex as code itself, people might as well learn tom code. It helps to focus on a set of use cases and abstract away from common, complicated, error-prone,. Critical functionality such as authentication, access control, filtering, schema definition and validation. All this stuff can be greatly simplified with a restrictive UI which simultaneously does the job and prevents people from shooting themselves in the foot. You need to weed out unnecessary complexity; give people exactly the right amount of rope to achieve a certain set of possible goals, but not enough rope for them to hang themselves. I've been working towards this with https://saasufy.com/ I've chosen to focus on CRUD apps. The goal is to push CRUD to its absolute maximum with auth, access control and real time data sync. So far it's at a point that you can build complex apps using only HTML tags. Next phase would be to support generating and editing the HTML tags via a friendly drag and drop UI. Still, it's for building front ends. It cannot and will never aim to be used to build stuff like data processing pipelines or for analytics. You'll need to run it alongside other services to get that functionality.

#Web Development Tools #Data Automation #AI 15 social mentions

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Vite

TypeScript compiler is too slow for instant reloads so it’s used only for IDEs. During development, all transformation happens via esbuild/swc and is abstracted away with Vite https://vitejs.dev/ Our front end is ~200k LOC if typescript and all changes are instant (<1s).

#Software Development #Web Frameworks #Developer Tools 474 social mentions

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MLJAR

I'm working on visual programming for Python. I created an Python editor, that is notebook based (similar to Jupyter) but each cell code in the notebook has graphical user interface. In this GUI you can select your code recipe, a simple code step, for example here is a recipe to list files in the directory https://mljar.com/docs/python-list-files-in-directory/ - you fill the UI and the code is generated. You can execute code cells in the top to bottom manner. In this approach you can click Python code. If you can't find UI with recipe, then you can ask AI assistant (running Llama3 with Ollama) or write custom python code. The app is called MLJAR Studio and it is a desktop based application, so all computations are running on your machine. You can read more on my website https://mljar.com.

#Data Science And Machine Learning #Data Dashboard #AI 4 social mentions