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by anigbrowl 5141 days ago
What I would like is a way to do more graphical programming, like this: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=reaktor&ion=1&... or this: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=reaktor&ion=1&... (which latter includes both C-like and assembly code modules, as well as extensive GUI manipulation capabilities).

When I was learning to code, and still sometimes, what annoys me about typing is that I don't know what I don't know. With graphical programming, having predefined modules with discoverable inputs and outputs encourages me to try connecting things together on a what-if basis to a much greater degree than a textual environment. This is what I find very attractive about the way Light Table is going; a lot of the time I want to build things but not necessarily to write code.