Visual Programming Ideas

[emil14]

This will be (temporary?) dump of ideas related to visualizing source code (higher level or desugared at least).

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Node Palette

This idea was randomly generated by LLM and I thought it's interesting actually.

Add categories:

• Operators: Add, Sub, Mul, Div, Mod, Neg, Abs, Inc, Dec
• Comparison: Eq, Neq, Lt, Gt, Lte, Gte
• Logic: And, Or, Not, Xor
• Bitwise: BitAnd, BitOr, BitXor, BitNot, ShiftLeft, ShiftRight
• Control: If, Switch variants, Race variants, Select variants, Match variants
• Streams: Range, Map, Filter, Reduce, Enumerate, Values, Take, Skip

Deferred Connection Visualization

This is the only reasonable way to visualize deferred connections, basically desugar them "on different end".

Render sig -> { data -> recv } as:

[sig input] ──┐
              ├─> [Lock] ──> [data output]
[data input] ─┘

Lock node shown with distinct style (e.g., dashed border, special icon).

User can:

• Click Lock node to see it's synthetic
• Edit connections normally
• Deferred syntax preserved in text serialization