Shameless shill:
We've been building a set of tools to make software development more visual, kind of like this. There are some examples on our site here, https://refinery.io
More specifically, you still write code and you visually connect pieces of code together. Think "pipelines of transformations" in a functional programming way. Then you click "deploy" and have it all running on AWS Lambda with rich logging and other goodies.
A lot my inspiration comes from being a former game dev who has used Scratch and UE4's Blueprint engine. I've personally found that it's difficult to get the abstraction right in a way that keeps complexity in check (as others in this thread have commented). That's why you still write code in Refinery -- you're just visually chaining microservice calls.
Would love to hear feedback + thoughts, if anybody is interested in sharing. free at refinery.io is a good email for me. :)
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Shameless shill: We've been building a set of tools to make software development more visual, kind of like this. There are some examples on our site here, https://refinery.io
More specifically, you still write code and you visually connect pieces of code together. Think "pipelines of transformations" in a functional programming way. Then you click "deploy" and have it all running on AWS Lambda with rich logging and other goodies.
A lot my inspiration comes from being a former game dev who has used Scratch and UE4's Blueprint engine. I've personally found that it's difficult to get the abstraction right in a way that keeps complexity in check (as others in this thread have commented). That's why you still write code in Refinery -- you're just visually chaining microservice calls.
Would love to hear feedback + thoughts, if anybody is interested in sharing. free at refinery.io is a good email for me. :)