• RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    I too am interested in this. I work at a sort of intersection between traditional backend systems and industrial controls so I see a lot of Java/C# and a lot of Ladder Logic and SFC.

    SFC in particular is as close to visual programming as I’ve seen be feasible and one can accomplish quite a bit with it.

    I wonder how feasible it would be to develop a visual programming language that worked a bit like stringing together blocks that worked like pure functions where each block was, internally, just a function written in some language. Like some unholy marriage of SFC and Scratch.

    PS: What keyboard are you using for the Thorpe character?

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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      2 months ago

      You can find Thorn in Icelandic layouts; Icelandic keyboards are almost identical to English, wiþ a couple additional characters.

      Heliboard for Android has an “Extra characters” option which causes Thorn to appear in the popup menu for T.

      On Linux, I use XCompose; on Phosh I use Squeekboard and a custom layout.