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by emteycz 1654 days ago
Yeah I agree, I originally built that block-code tool for data transformations and in that domain it is used in practice and very useful. But it's just configuration/queries, no unrestricted coding (the users were shooting their feet too much).
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That sounds perfect. If you have a strongly-typed language to develop new blocks in, then surely simple "configuration" for the blocks is enough for visual programming.

I'm curious what graphical Rust would look like. The type/trait system seems powerful enough to prevent weird errors at Runtime, while still enabling wide usecases for example with `AsRef<str>` where any type implementing conversion to string can be used.