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Where these projects tend to fail is in being designed with the assumption of needing to be as decomposed and abstracted as textual code. Suddenly the components become "syntax" again and you're just doing regular old coding with more clicking. On the other hand, the most popular implementations in the historical record - projects like Pure Data - have relatively weak coding abstractions and instead gain strength from staying tightly focused on their domain and never deviating - they are big libraries with a very tiny language, not the other way around.

NoFlo is building on the existing legacy of what has been shown to work, and is most progressive in the sense that it aims to have libraries for many different domains, rather than just one.