[lukifer]

It's got the AppleScript problem: incredibly close to pro-sumer zero-code development, but in practice still requires some prior tech knowledge.

I'd love to see pre-packaged Node-RED binaries for Mac and Windows. Requiring an install via Terminal / package manager is going to lose a lot of potential users right at the start.

That said, I absolutely adore Node-RED. It's the most powerful and intuitive GUI-based development system I've ever seen, without sacrificing the ability to go down to the metal when it's needed.

[RNCTX]

I think their biggest oversight was not having all of the core programming functions that we take for granted (loops in particular). They have core nodes for if/else and breaks, but you have to go find a third party implementation for while/for loops.

There's a third party set of nodes called "action flows" that does a pretty good job of implementing for/while loops, but it's not trivial to just install and use, you have to learn its conventions to use it properly.

I gotta think most developers would install it, poke around for awhile, see that there's no obvious way to implement a loop, and throw it away when they don't find one.