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		s_gourichon on March 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Flyde – an open-source visual programming... > visual programming 25 years ago when I read that Microsoft has a software development environment named "Visual Studio" I imagined, well, something with graphs and nodes and flow and... Well something visual, right? Now it's 2024 and VS is still not visual. Of course things are not as simple. Flyde (along with many alternatives mentioned) is visual IMHO. Keep up the good work!

int_19h on March 8, 2024 | [–]

"Visual" in Visual Studio was a reference to RAD. Basically, visual form and report designers.

gabigrin on March 8, 2024 | [–]

Thank you!

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