3 ms·

Thanks! I wonder why spatial organizations haven't caught on in programming. Maybe the extra degrees of control have more costs than benefits? With rigid tiling

Thanks! I wonder why spatial organizations haven't caught on in programming. Maybe the extra degrees of control have more costs than benefits? With rigid tiling, it's easier to switch between panes, layout, etc.. Here's an image of one of my darklang projects https://twitter.com/_paulshen/status/1321872376234082305/photo/1 https://twitter.com/_paulshen/status/1321872376234082305/pho... My conclusion was that it's an interesting experience but needs refinement for "power usage". What I want to explore is creating multiple views for the connections you care about. I imagine that would benefit from richer visualization than a list of text. like the ones you mention!

codetrotter 6y ago
I’ve been dreaming of organizing code in two dimensions too. Maybe even three dimensions. But at least two. My own thinking is that perhaps with higher resolutions like we have now, and very wide screen monitors becoming popular, more people might start to look into organizing code in more spatial dimensions. Your paned approach is very interesting. Seems more tidy than purely graphical node-based programming. Now I am wondering if your approach could also lend itself to debugging code. Where you’d step through the code and each time you step into a function in the debugger it would open a pane with the code of the function to the right. And same for breakpoints so if you ran your code to a breakpoint then it would show each function in a pane organized horizontally corresponding to the stack trace at the point where execution was stopped.
- paulshen 6y ago
  re debugging: check out the video on Debugger Canvas for Visual Studio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p9XUwIlhJg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p9XUwIlhJg
  - codetrotter 6y ago
    Interesting, that thing you linked there works that exact way indeed!

3 ms·

Thanks! I wonder why spatial organizations haven't caught on in programming. Maybe the extra degrees of control have more costs than benefits? With rigid tiling

by paulshen 6y ago

codetrotter 6y ago
I’ve been dreaming of organizing code in two dimensions too. Maybe even three dimensions. But at least two. My own thinking is that perhaps with higher resolutions like we have now, and very wide screen monitors becoming popular, more people might start to look into organizing code in more spatial dimensions. Your paned approach is very interesting. Seems more tidy than purely graphical node-based programming. Now I am wondering if your approach could also lend itself to debugging code. Where you’d step through the code and each time you step into a function in the debugger it would open a pane with the code of the function to the right. And same for breakpoints so if you ran your code to a breakpoint then it would show each function in a pane organized horizontally corresponding to the stack trace at the point where execution was stopped.
- paulshen 6y ago
  re debugging: check out the video on Debugger Canvas for Visual Studio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p9XUwIlhJg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p9XUwIlhJg
  - codetrotter 6y ago
    Interesting, that thing you linked there works that exact way indeed!