I've always been weirded out by these "programming by connecting boxes" environments. In my experience, the only benefit they bring is removing the need to understand the syntax, which is the simplest part of programming, at the cost of making it much more complicated to find out the boxes, figure out what can connect where, looking up documentation, etc.
Interestingly, I don't get this feeling with Snap! or Scratch. Sure, they're not designed for me, but they're intuitive, and they just work.
Not sure where the disconnect lies. Quite possibly in my brain.
Is there anything similar that is not limited to Apple?
I've always been weirded out by these "programming by connecting boxes" environments. In my experience, the only benefit they bring is removing the need to understand the syntax, which is the simplest part of programming, at the cost of making it much more complicated to find out the boxes, figure out what can connect where, looking up documentation, etc.
Interestingly, I don't get this feeling with Snap! or Scratch. Sure, they're not designed for me, but they're intuitive, and they just work.
Not sure where the disconnect lies. Quite possibly in my brain.
Should have a better name. There is Fabric, a library in Python, microsoft's SaaS offering
That's a rather obscure conflict, when you think that the two have no domain overlap
Also a popular Minecraft modding framework https://fabricmc.net/
Microsoft also called their new replacement for Synapse Fabric. So Microsoft has at least two projects named Fabric.
Is there a good resource on naming things? Or a catalogue of brilliant names?
A great resource for naming things is to use google once you think you have a good name. It really doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.
Everything has collisions unless it's an invented word. And even then, you might find prior art.
Fabric is a extremely overused name.
Looks like too many boxes needed for simple things.