Exciting project! I hope it gets fully funded!

The best part of Flow-Based Programming is how simple it is: you create components and then compose/pipe them together in the form of a network (your algorithm). It's definitely worth exploring!
https://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FlowBasedProgramming

Also worth a look:
https://blog.getprismatic.com/blog/2012/10/1/prismatics-graph-at-strange-loop.html

Enjoy! :)

Seems very nice. Reminds me of the London Tube maps : ) Totally agree with Paul Morrison that there is not much progress concerning software editors. That got me working with OutSystems in the first place..

I believe ServiceStudio can also be used as a meta visual editor (https://www.outsystems.com/ideas/Idea_View.aspx?IdeaId=509) for different languages. Unfortunatelly I seem to be the only one that believes that : )

What I also liked about NoFlo was their full screen editor (https://www.outsystems.com/ideas/Idea_View.aspx?IdeaId=341)

@Hans

I dont think that idea would happen, why? because then outsystems wouldnt make any money!

However ServiceStudio Plugin, now this - maybe? (Plugin's just like visual studio plugins? outsystems will need to open up their oml file (unlikely to happen), an alternative solution be to create a scripting file!)

Actually what Hans is suggesting would be awesome.

I can totally see the platform being great (and utterly sellable) even if it's completely agnostic to the underlying technologies (database engine, application server, target language).

Having something like this would mean that there is less existing IT resistance to adopting the platform since it could fit their existing systems.

I feel that at this point the platform is a bit far from that ideal goal, but boy would it be awesome :)

Service Studio plugins and ways to manipulate the eSpace metamodel automatically to further speedup your developments would also be a great addition.

Anyways, I didn't want to hijack the topic of this conversation, so I'll just say that the OutSystems platform already does a little bit of what NoFlo tries to do. Unfortunately it doesn't go so much to the high level as NoFlo has a chance of going, but it already offers a codeless environment where you can describe the flow of your program using something very akin to what you do on paper (flowcharts).

It makes me happy to see that at least some people totally understood what I was trying to say :) !

The concept of visual programming lays close to my heart; when I finally encountered OutSystems 7 or 8 years ago, I thought it was the best and only visual concept overall that really worked. (However to be honest I had also expected that it would have evolved much more by now.)

I like the concept of NoFlo, especially the part where you can click on a component and just edit code. However if this was also visual it would take the tool to another level. So, I did a search on Visual JavaScript and found https://jsmaker.com It seems familliar with NoFlo but it is more visual codebased (where NoFlo is more visual structurebased). Still not the perfect solution but when combining both it is a small step closer to the ideal visual programming environment : )

The prospect of doing quick in line code editing would be a big plus, even if just for extensions, hope they can add this one day.

I also thought the same thing as Ricardo, Service Studio really needs a plugin ability. It's great that we can integrate outside code into the applications we build, but it would be even better if we were allowed to create plugins for the IDE directly. The possibilities could be nearly endless at that point.