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Great work on Codea! I think you’re pushing the boundaries on making an iPad a standalone professional tool.

Any chance Codea support for other programming languages is on the horizon?

What do you think about graphical languages like Blockly, Blueprints, Workflow, and WebGME?

- Blockly: https://developers.google.com/blockly/

- Blueprints: https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Blueprints

- Workflow: https://www.workflow.is/

- WebGME: https://webgme.org/



Thank you!

I've been working on a new app called Shade that's a visual shader editor. It's really made me fall in love with the node graph representation of logic.

https://twitter.com/johntwolives/status/1081513719694159873/...

I enjoy using Workflow (now Shortcuts). And I'm continuously impressed with Blueprints.

I think there's still something emotionally different about writing code. Like it hooks in to the part of your brain that deals with language in a way that visual tools don't.

I don't think that makes it better, but it makes it feels different.

Whatever visual systems we experiment with, I hope to keep thinking about writing and the feeling of writing when we build tools to solve logical problems.




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