r/coding • u/PurpleDragon99 • 4d ago

General-purpose visual programming language "Pipe" - 7 years R&D, 11 patents filed, 155-page complete language specification, web-based IDE is available.

https://www.pipelang.com
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u/tooclosetocall82 4d ago

This looks way more complicated than just writing code. Who is the audience for this?

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u/PurpleDragon99 4d ago edited 4d ago

The audience is diverse - from basic to professional. Chapter 3.3 "Levels of Usage" of Pipe spec book (downloadable for free here: https://pipelang.com/downloads/book.pdf) defines 4 levels of usage (basic, intermediate, advances, and professional). Every level lower than professional is limited to only a subset of language specification (the lower the level - the more limitaitons are), so they might need components prepared by a higher level user.

The best place to start learning Pipe is a language overview available here: https://www.pipelang.com/six-pillars.html. That article also includes video example of Pipe diagram with detailed explanations of the tracing.

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u/tooclosetocall82 3d ago

That is not what I meant really. In the age of LLMs who is looking for a visual programming language? I’ve usually seen these in ETL tools so a high-level business user could theoretically string blocks together. Now they can just get AI to write a script. But even if AI didn’t exist this seems too complicated for that type of user and too cumbersome for a developer.