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204 points Towaway69 | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0s | source

Hi There,

Erlang-RED has been my project for the last couple of months and I would love to get some feedback from the HN community.

The idea is to take advantage of Erlangs message passing and low overhead processes to have true concurrency in Node-RED flows. Plus also to bring low-code visual flow-based programming to Erlang.

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paddy_m ◴[] No.44006855[source]
Nice work! A couple of comments

1. You don't explain what flow based programming is or when it should be used. It looks like it represents some type of data pipeline, but I'm not sure.

2. Who is this repo for? PL enthusiasts, tool builders of type $X?

3. What are operators?

4. I understand that this is supposed to execute on an Erlang cluster/VM... Could you build a JS implementation of the functions so that you could build interactive demos in a browser? The lack of multithreading in JS doesn't rally matter, you just want to be able to send 10 line examples from one function to another.

5. A fun challenge for documenting projects like this, explain it as you would to a non-technical family member. It forces you to define the other things in erlang in a very direct and simple way.

6. Make a video explaining the project.

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