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by eternityforest 698 days ago
I think the whole flow concept is really only good for media pipelines and such.

In mathematics, everything exists at once just like real life.

In most programming languages, things happen in explicit discrete steps which makes things a lot easier, and most node based systems don't have that property.

I greatly prefer block based programming where you're dragging rules and command blocks that work like traditional programming, but with higher level functions, ease of use on mobile, and no need to memorize all the API call names just for a one off tasks.

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What would be useful is a data flow representation of the call stack of a piece of code. Generated from source, and then brought back from the GUI into source.