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red_admiral on July 15, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: We need visual programming. No, not like that

> Any sufficiently advanced program has non-planar dataflow graph.

For some reason this reminded me of the elevated rails coming in the next Factorio update. Maybe visual editors need something similar? Even Logisim can distinguish between a node (three or more wires join) and two wires that just cross without interacting.

tliltocatl on July 15, 2024 [–]

I mean it's easy to make the compiler see the crosses, but it's much harder for the user to trace these (and parallel busses too).

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