Node-Based Programming

https://nodes.io/story/

https://nodes.io/assets/visual-tools-landscape.pdf

Creative coding environments like Processing popularised the idea of “sketching in code”: quick and dirty prototyping allowing you to rapidly explore multiple ideas. This type of programming is especially suitable for visuals problems and early explorations where focusing too much on code structure and optimisation can slow us down and limit possibilities. If we compare this way of working to pen and paper sketching, the analogy breaks down quickly as we would be limited to draw only one thing per page. Having an explicit “edit, compile, run” loop (as opposed to surgical live changes) and no easy way to maintain multiple versions of the code (as opposed to quickly copy-pasting nodes or parts of the graph) usually hold you back from easily exploring multiple branches of your ideas.