[HN Gopher] Show HN: Powerful Visual Programming Language (Book)
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Show HN: Powerful Visual Programming Language (Book)
Throughout my 30+ software development career, after spending many
sleepless nights digging up through enormous codebases to
understand logic or fix a bug, I was thinking: "There must be a
better, visual way to represent program rather than text". However,
no usable visual programming language popped up on horizon for the
whole duration of 30+ years of my career. Therefore, I decided to
take matters in my own hands, creating new visual programming
language called "Pipe". A book about this language was published
recently. The book is available for free on Amazon Kindle and Apple
iBooks. Language Pipe has a level of sophistication and power
comparable to existing most powerful textual languages and
therefore, it has a very high chances to successfully compete with
text-based programming. The book provides full and comprehensive
language specification. On top of that, the book contains many
features and ideas planned for future versions of the language.
Pipe implements many novel concepts and unique features. As a
result, multiple patent applications have already been filed and
pending. The published book contains complete language
specification, including graphical notation of all its elements and
full API specification for code integration. Pipe has the following
features: * General-purpose visual language. * Compact but
powerful language. * Complete and detailed language specification.
* Practical visual language. * API specification for integration
with non-visual languages. * Statically-typed language. * Long-
term plans for future versions. * Augmentation of AI code
generation. * Language for the next generation of low-code
systems. The problem of AI code generation is that it is very
difficult to prepare complete and precise input specifications,
especially in case of a large project. The solution is generating
code only for base-level components easily explainable to AI,
completing the rest of application via manual coding. That,
however, undermines the goal of leveraging AI to remove the need
for human programming. Pipe provides an alternative to textual
coding by encapsulating AI-generated components within visual
blocks for building the rest of application as graphical workflows
via an intuitive drag-and-drop interface. As a next level of Pipe
evolution, AI will be generating complete visual workflows
directly, making it much easier to understand and modify generated
logic. Usage of a general-purpose visual programming language Pipe
to connect blocks containing AI-generated code can inspire the next
generation of extremely versatile low-code platforms, as AI code
generation followed by visual integration of generated components
is a very powerful low-code framework. Users will be able to
generate new components using AI and that solves the problem of
limited customization in existing low-code platforms where
components are mostly predefined. On top of that, common visual
programming language Pipe will ensure portability of low-code
projects between different platforms.
Author : toplinesoftsys
Score : 6 points
Date : 2025-10-03 21:42 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.pipelang.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.pipelang.com)
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