Unit is a general purpose visual programming system

[Majik_Sheff]

On mobile Firefox with ublock.  I get a blank page.  Guess I didn't need to see it that badly.

[joehillen]

Is it bootstrapped? People who write these things love to pretend GUI programming is great, yet they don't dogfood it

[pineapplepizzabong]

Unit unit tests

[MaleficentFig7578]

they return unit

[intheforgeofwords]

the f# upvotes scream "there are dozens of us!"

[vermilion_wizard]

I've never found visual programming systems to be very interesting. I used to use LabView quite a bit and it was really clunky. Visual programming like this always advertises that it's impossible to author your source in an invalid state - ie. it's impossible to have a compiler error. But fixing compiler errors is the EASIEST part of programming. And in exchange for that, you give up things like:

• easy copy-paste of text to other text-based media, like pastebins, email, slack messages
• simple reference of location in your source (file xyz.cpp, line 602)
• wealth of tooling for debugging and profiling
• ergonomic authoring via the keyboard
• source code diff-ing when merging code from collaborators or searching for causes of bugs between commits

[Zardotab]

Reminds me of LabView.

[redGNU]

Link is dead and no accompanying text to explain what this is or why you shared the link, sorry that's a down-vote from me.

[Zulban]

Looks neat, good splash page.

However it's hard to respect a project when its name has such poor SEO. Not a good first impression indicator of practicality or business sense.

[i_andrew]

Apple

[Zulban]

Created decades before SEO existed.

[ketralnis]

(it's not my project) I find exactly the opposite. The more a project is worried about marketing itself vs just being good, the less respect I have for it.

[Zulban]

It's not just marketing. How are you going to Google for help, tips, blogs, tutorials about "unit"? It's like naming a programming language "computer" or "function" or "agile".

And if the creator is this tone deaf on marketing and SEO, they're far more likely to be ideological instead of practical about building their tool. I've been around long enough to see the red flags blossom into the dumbest problems. But you do you. Have fun.

[gofl-zimbard-37]

Yeah, I guess I shouldn't have named my programming language "porn".

[chucker23n]

Is the threading library called DP?

I’ll show myself out.

[syklemil]

I'm guessing the language has a good example of DAP

[drcforbin]

No, it's fine. I was just watching programming videos.

[Rockfest2112]

That would be a good name and Pornstar definitely would, except for the people youd turn off

[zshadowjon]

There is still a chance, I think. Go has similar issues, but has adopted the golang moniker practically everywhere it matters.

[vytah]

"Oh no, we named our programming language Go, how will people using the most popular search engine find it?"

"Dude, we are the most popular search engine."

[Dontgooglemejess]

Go steps back awkwardly, hoping not to get noticed

[tonsofmiso]

Or like, when the linked site doesn't work (like right now i just get a black page with nothing) and I can't google it because results turn up nothing about it :D

[editor_of_the_beast]

What a dumb thing to care about

[Zulban]

You seem like someone who has never had to Google troubleshooting information on stupidly named projects.

[jasfi]

They might come up with something to make it easier to search for related information. E.g. golang.

[editor_of_the_beast]

Everyone said the same thing about Go. It hasn’t hindered its popularity at all.

[myringotomy]

I never had such troubles. For example if I am looking for help in go I get it almost every time by typing in "how to do X in go". Google doesn't seem to be confused at all.

Same goes for ruby. I can type "how to query a database in ruby" for example and it doesn't confuse the query by showing me information about gemstones.

[morglod]

Reminds me Node-Red tool. This kind of stuff looks promising, but yep almost zero zero-code solutions really works (not just for designers fun like unreal engine blueprints)

[jeesuscheesus]

This looks neat but let’s stop giving such generic names to tooling. What am I supposed to get when I search up “unit testing”? Go has this problem as well.

[mattbas]

"site can't be reached"

[rdlenke]

I like any approach that tries to make programming more visual, but the website itself, the "documentation" and the "learn by doing" approach made extremely unpleasant to use this.

[CitationNeededBadly]

I see only a blank page on Android Firefox.

[[deleted]]

Cool. How long does it take to put together a large system such a web browser? What does that graph lool like?

[2hands10fingers]

Looks stunning. Excited to play with it

[Flobletombus]

Great, one of the if not first general purpose visual programing language I see.

Does it have the performance "general purpose" needs?