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I'm not sure about the AI features but the concept of working with code on a canvas and having some sort of flowchart UI has been a dream of mine for some time.
by cl3misch 2y ago
I'm not sure about the AI features but the concept of working with code on a canvas and having some sort of flowchart UI has been a dream of mine for some time. I mainly do data processing and draw lots of flowcharts for communicating pipelines and also for myself. Having a development UI which goes in that direction somewhat would be great for handling unwieldy codebases written by non-CS folk.
- Falimonda 2y agoIs a tool like LabView what you have in mind? https://www.ni.com/en/shop/labview.html https://www.ni.com/en/shop/labview.html
- cl3misch 2y agoYeah kind of. I have worked with LabView and liked the flowchart UI for handling lab instruments, but for somewhat complex algorithms it got unwieldy really fast. I have the feeling LabView is a good tool for designing control panels and visual tools in general ("front-end"). It is less suited for implementing back-end algorithms. I guess I wish for a similar tool which can also handle the back-end (in the context of my data processing job). The problem is that I don't know myself what UI I would actually want for a "canvas-based editor". Some mixture between a visual flowchart and being able to edit code in each box? I'm obviously not the first person to think about it and it seems to be a non-trivial problem.
- akshaysg 2y agoCurious if the problem you're encountering is visualizing the data flow vs. the control flow?
- promiseofbeans 2y agoKind of like what BlueJ does with Java?
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- tmvnty 2y agoIt would be awesome if we can sketch diagrams and code in the same canvas! This would make visual documentation much easier.
- sim7c00 2y agoyou can do asciidoctor, plantUML kroki in vscode so maybe its present mode can already be used in there like that?