[lmeyerov]

Been following the creators for awhile and very much happy to see them democratizing their difficult skillset.

Most designers -- think anyone using figma -- are effectively locked out of modern interactive and animated visuals due to not knowing hardcore shaders + effective js coding. To get a feel for how hard that is, look at the public timeline of Shirley Wu, another wonderful award-winning designer and experienced js coder, to pick this kind of stuff up. Nodes makes it a lot more accessible, similar to Max/msp for musicians. Once you look beyond the over-claiming, which is clearly nails-on-chalkboard for most engineers and scientists as you are seeing in the comments -- this is a wonderful and enabling project.

Extra impressive is they do not seem to try to 'dumb it down'. They are a consultancy and (seem to) try to use it for their own bespoke advanced installations. I don't know how well this will translate to others, but the success of Max msp and super collider make me optimistic that it can grow to those levels. Cycling 74 supports 20+ employees and empowers many musicians, and as Nodes can be used for commercial art (web+tv ads, music videos, landing pages, ...), I can see them being even bigger.

[dmnsgn]

Being coders ourselves we focused on a programmer-first approach indeed. The idea came naturally from a gap we identified in our day-to-day practice at Variable.io (data-art, installations, generative systems, ...). It enables some collaboration with designers (through exposing some parameters of the UI) but still focus on the coding experience to bring our projects to life.

[bezelbuttons]

> look at the public timeline of Shirley Wu,

Do you have a link to this?

[lmeyerov]

https://twitter.com/sxywu/media?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwc...