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Next Generation Visual Programming System

14 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 8 stories, 6 comments · first 2021-12-19 · latest 2025-12-05

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    Unit – Next Generation Visual Programming System
    story by andsoitis · 2025-12-05 · 0 comments
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    Unit – Next Generation Visual Programming System
    story by C-programmer · 2025-01-09 · 0 comments
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    Unit – Visual Programming System
    story by oliverkwebb · 2024-08-29 · 0 comments
  4. …a tool to convert existing programs to Unit. This readme gives a much better idea of how it works: https://github.com/samuelmtimbo/unit/blob/main/src/docs/star...
    comment by deegles · 2024-07-08 · in Unit is a general purpose visual programming system
  5. https://github.com/samuelmtimbo/unit/
    comment by paulhart · 2024-07-08 · in Unit is a general purpose visual programming system
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    Unit – Next Generation Visual Programming System
    story by tuukkah · 2023-12-20 · 0 comments
  7. …all, we use lots of comments to give some structure to text-based coding. There was a post about https://github.com/samuelmtimbo/unit recently, which at least uses some kind of hinted auto-layout (besides the more propriety fancy) I really…
    comment by hoc · 2023-09-29 · in Visual Node Graph with ImGui
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    Unit: Next Generation Visual Programming System
    story by sigmonsays · 2023-08-17 · 1 comment
  9. …fully homoiconic - this maybe isn't a priority for Unit. The Unit design philosophy is explained in https://github.com/samuelmtimbo/unit/blob/main/src/docs/conc... . This doesn't mention earlier approaches (e.g. the Manchester Dataflow…
    comment by DonaldFisk · 2023-08-17 · in Unit: A visual programming system [video]
  10. …are interested in visual programming you might enjoy checking these out: Unit from Samuel Timbó: https://github.com/samuelmtimbo/unit https://ioun.it/ A video of me exploring what I figured out about it (while also learning to stream)…
    comment by leetrout · 2022-12-22 · in A personal history of visual programming environments (2021)
  11. unit: Next Generation Visual Programming Platform: https://github.com/samuelmtimbo/unit - A code drawn in unit is simply a Directed Graph. - Programming can be partially performed by Gesture and by Voice.
    comment by pella · 2022-08-07 · in Ask HN: More “experimental” UIs for editing/writing code?
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    Unit: Next Generation Visual Programming Platform
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    Unit: Next Generation Visual Programming Platform
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