[anigbrowl]

people definitely don't want to code with a mouse dragging and zooming

Actually that is exactly what I want which is why I signed up for the Luna beta months ago. We have had flow based programming for a while in the synth and robotics communities and nesting diagrams within each other is the normal thing. For many tasks you can produce elaborate working interactive UIs without ever writing code. My favorite software allowed adding code in C and assembler, though then they shifted focus towards the robotics control market and reoriented it around Ruby.

There are two big advantages in working primarily at the graphic level: you can trace control flows visually and you don't have to know all the libraries and syntax. Instead you can select from a palette and find out what they do by using them, and it should be the computer's job to worry about syntax anyway.

[kirillseva]

would you care to name that favorite software that has reoriented itself towards Ruby? Curious to learn more

[anigbrowl]

iirc it's flowstone DSP, last time I looked there was still a free version though it's not an open source project. Would recommend to anyone as an example of good UI in this area

[wdanilo]

@anigbrowl I do not know flowstone DSP, but I see you were thinking much about GUI / nodes design. This is one of the topics I'm passionate about and I we want to make Luna the most powerful visual language available. I would love to chat with you about node design and your ideas. If you think it's interesting, I've just created a topic on our forum for this – I would love to read and discuss your thoughts there! https://discuss.luna-lang.org/t/nodes-design-discussion/69

[anigbrowl]

Will do