> I feel like visual programming gets a bad rap because of things like this. As ...

jcelerier on Nov 21, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: New visual language for teaching kids to ...

> I feel like visual programming gets a bad rap because of things like this. As an electronic engineer that used to love LabView and life long user of NI Reaktor and Max/MSP, those tools are fantastic if you don’t approach them with an imperative programming mindset.

aha, in the long run I ended up making https://ossia.io which is as VPL as it can get. Yet it still embeds multiple textual languages.

whstl on Nov 22, 2023 [–]

Ah, this looks great. This is how you do it, by being able to customize by embedding you get the best of both worlds.