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This reminds me of the Atlas connections interface. (see screencast: http://280atlas.com/what.php http://280atlas.com/what.php) How does that compare to your

• ilaksh 17y ago
  Right, binding properties on components to other components' properties or to code through visual drag-and-drop operations is the right direction I think. I would like to go further, with finer-grained components, all the way down to the code level, so even when we are building components, we are building them out of interactive two-dimensional widgets/models or something. I think it would be easier to interact with branching statements, function calls or classes or some more appropriate abstraction using some type of two-dimensional interactive widgets rather than having to type code. Also, I am not sure what the best approach is, but I think we can go beyond even the ability to connect properties on components. Not sure if it needs to be as complex as projectional editors like Intentional Software is creating or if maybe in some ways that might be more complex than we want. Here is one idea I had awhile ago. (Just an idea, certainly doesn't represent a vision or anything http://ilaksh.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/2d-programming-via-composed-code-generating-widgets/#comments http://ilaksh.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/2d-programming-via-co...) I also think that real-time collaborative environments are a huge boost.