Context : ProgrammingStuff, OnVisualization

IvanReese has a catalogue of visual programming languages and systems

https://github.com/ivanreese/visual-programming-codex/blob/main/implementations.md

Some pictures : https://github.com/ivanreese/visual-programming-codex/blob/main/impressions/app-store-illustration.md

LucyKeer grabbed a bunch of Hacker news comments to see what people were saying. And came up with a reasonably illuminating summary

https://drossbucket.com/2021/06/30/hacker-news-folk-wisdom-on-visual-programming

Clarity http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/addist/Verse1B.pdf

The more I see people complaining about "text is holding us back", the more polemical I get in my defence of text. See DynamicIdiocracy for example. TextPeople

ThreadView

Most visual programming languages make limited use of the visual channel — the program structure is represented visually, but not much else. Usually the shapes and colors they use have an abstract (symbolic) meaning, not a concrete one.

What are some different approaches?
— Patrick Dubroy (@dubroy) February 21, 2022

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ThoughtStorms Wiki :: VisualProgramming