visual-programming-codex

You'll find that link, and a few other great ones like it, on the "Reflections" page of my codex: https://github.com/ivanreese/visual-programming-codex/blob/m... My favourite is the "Gallery of Programmer Interfaces" by Jonathan Edwards: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MD-CgzODFWzdpnYXr8bE... I can also heartily recommend following Edwards on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonathoda

Plug — for anyone researching or otherwise interested in visual languages like Luna, I keep a collection of projects, papers, talks, references, and other related media here on Github: https://github.com/ivanreese/visual-programming-codex As for Luna, it seems like they've gone quiet for the past while, though I believe they're still hard at work on the project. Hopefully they can improve the stability and performance of the program, because to date I've found it almost unusable. For a similarly interesting project (albeit not visual in the same way), I recommend people also take a look a isomorƒ: https://isomorf.io

I consider myself a serious programmer (fond of Clojure, Haskell, writing hyper-performant graphics code, etc). I'm also very fond of visual languages, so much so that I started collecting and cataloging all the noteworthy examples of them I came across in my research travels: https://github.com/ivanreese/visual-programming-codex Yes, the vast majority of visual languages are uninspired and underdeveloped. But the same is true of text languages — look at Pascal or xBase or C++ templates. Yes, it's possible to make a terrible mess in a visual language. But the same is true of text languages — we had to learn the hard way not to goto, not to do TCL style string-based metaprogramming. When we think of the greatness of text languages, we're thinking of Idris and APL and Racket, not the Java you see on The Daily WTF. When we think of visual la