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by weitzj 2006 days ago
This looks interesting. But as a developer I really would like my pull requests, linters and what not.

This feels like the G-Programming language from LabView which allows you to graphically program your physics experiments. But once you drink the programming language coolaid you don’t want to do graphics programming any more.

So I guess I am already biased towards reading text. But for me this is still the best way to consume information compared to pictures or videos

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Interesting points. FYI: pull requests will be available during Q1/2021 and we have a kind of linter (predictable blocks, maps, lists). Another point is once you work on graphics I guess you care less about the code since you'll be fully managing graphics in the same analogy to assembly, you care about your language code and not about the assembly generated behind the scenes.
> I guess you care less about the code since you'll be fully managing graphics ...

Is this a thing you have experienced for yourself and others around you? My experience does not hold this statement as it is much harder for me to parse a complex image.

Yes, I'm still experiencing that while using Brainboard. I realize that I care more about the graphics and the design and less about the code even if I spent more 12 years dealing with the code.