[HN Gopher] Where should visual programming go?
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       Where should visual programming go?
        
       Author : surprisetalk
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2024-07-22 15:31 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | hinkley wrote:
       | When this last round of discussion of visual programming happened
       | I had a minor epiphany.
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       | For a little background, I've maintained that visual programming
       | goes absolutely nowhere until we have visual diffs that work
       | (work as in workflow). I've been saying that since before the UML
       | Trough of Disillusionment kicked into high gear. Without diffs,
       | without analysis, we are going nowhere fast. Almost every other
       | link of the lifecycle is still intact with visual code but
       | focusing on an editor without diffs breaks the chain. There's no
       | producing and maintaining commercial grade software without it.
       | It's either toy programs, or absolutely heroic effort, and what
       | else could you have done with that much energy?
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       | The epiphany was this: motion detection has been a feature of
       | digital video since at least the MPEG days. Someone with a
       | background in video compression needs to tackle the problem of
       | doffing visual code. Figuring out how the code should look
       | (mechanical sympathy) to facilitate this.
        
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