[ranran876]

That sounds very similar to LabView (aka. G)... Have you ever tried programming something complicated in LabView? I'd almost rather write assembly.

Professional programming is about managing complexity. It's about putting thousands of man-hours into one single project with a dozen of different people without anyone's head exploding.

Light-table could have potentially been a huge help in the constant battle with managing complexity.. It's an area that has need some serious development (virtually nothing substantial has been added to IDEs in the past decade). But instead you're going to create a beginner friendly monster.

This is the opposite of progress

[ibdknox]

I was suggesting that it's actually not like labview at all :p

The model we have is significantly better than what we ever showed with Light Table. For example, being able to organize "code" by the actual functionality it's related to instead of files is something that happens by default in our world. You can actually create queries to show any view of the rules that exist in our world that you want (show me everything related to this button, that has been changed in the past month..)

Our model is entirely about preventing people's heads from exploding, taming complexity through a very simple set of primitives that seamlessly work together.

[orbifold]

I don't know, I've only used Labview a couple of times, it had really nice interfaces to temperature sensors and some other physical things, you were able to throw together a quick ui monitoring a number of sensors, had a start and stop button and tools for data export. We were able to pick it up in a few hours. Programming the experiment took a couple of hours too, obviously it was rather trivial but I doubt we would have had much luck interfacing with all those different sensors in a C program without major headache.