samuelmtimbo/unit
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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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…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 -
https://github.com/samuelmtimbo/unit/
comment by paulhart · 2024-07-08 · in Unit is a general purpose visual programming system -
…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 -
…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] -
…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) -
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?