Powerful Visual Programming Language (Book)
Throughout my 30+ software development career, after spending many sleepless nights digging up through enormous codebases to understand logic or fix a bug, I was thinking: "There must be a better, visual way to represent program rather than text". However, no usable visual programming language popped up on horizon for the whole duration of 30+ years of my career. Therefore, I decided to take matters in my own hands, creating new visual programming language called "Pipe". A book about this language was published recently. The book is available for free on Amazon Kindle and Apple iBooks.…
In plain words
This is a book introducing Pipe, a visual programming language designed as an alternative to text-based code. Created by a developer with over 30 years of experience, Pipe aims to make understanding and debugging complex programs easier through visual representation. The book contains a full language specification and is available free on Amazon Kindle and Apple iBooks. It targets software developers interested in visual programming approaches with capabilities comparable to traditional programming languages.
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In the maker’s words, at launch
Throughout my 30+ software development career, after spending many sleepless nights digging up through enormous codebases to understand logic or fix a bug, I was thinking: "There must be a better, visual way to represent program rather than text". However, no usable visual programming language popped up on horizon for the whole duration of 30+ years of my career. Therefore, I decided to take matters in my own hands, creating new visual programming language called "Pipe". A book about this language was published recently. The book is available for free on Amazon Kindle and Apple iBooks. Language Pipe has a level of sophistication and power comparable to existing most powerful textual languages and therefore, it has a very high chances to successfully compete with text-based programming. The book provides full and comprehensive language specification. On top of that, the book contains many features and ideas planned for future versions of the language. Pipe implements many novel concepts and unique features. As a result, multiple patent applications have already been filed and pending. The published book contains complete language specification, including graphical notation of all its elements and full API specification for code integration. Pipe has the following features: * General-purpose visual language. * Compact but powerful language. * Complete and detailed language specification. * Practical visual language. * API specification for integration with non-visual languages. * Statically-typed language. * Long-term plans for future versions. * Augmentation of AI code generation. * Language for the next generation of low-code systems. The problem of AI code generation is that it is very difficult to prepare complete and precise input specifications, especially in case of a large project. The solution is generating code only for base-level components easily explainable to AI, completing the rest of application via manual coding. That, however, undermines the goal of leveraging AI to remove the need for human programming. Pipe provides an alternative to textual coding by encapsulating AI-generated components within visual blocks for building the rest of application as graphical workflows via an intuitive drag-and-drop interface. As a next level of Pipe evolution, AI will be generating complete visual workflows directly, making it much easier to understand and modify generated logic. Usage of a general-purpose visual programming language Pipe to connect blocks containing AI-generated code can inspire the next generation of extremely versatile low-code platforms, as AI code generation followed by visual integration of generated components is a very powerful low-code framework. Users will be able to generate new components using AI and that solves the problem of limited customization in existing low-code platforms where components are mostly predefined. On top of that, common visual programming language Pipe will ensure portability of low-code projects between different platforms. Please find PDF with book preview here: https://www.pipelang.com/sample/sample.pdf
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