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Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED

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243 points Towaway69 | 2 comments | 16 May 25 14:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.509s | 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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oersted ◴[16 May 25 17:17 UTC] No.44007812[source]▶
> Node-RED is a amazing[*] tool for creating flows that describe concurrent processing, it is just a shame the NodeJS is single threaded. So why not use something that is multi-process from the ground up?

That's great! But now that we are doing this, it kind of makes me wish that it was not multi-processing and Erlang, but a more mainstream language with a better library ecosystem and focused on multi-threading instead, Rust comes to mind but there could be a better one.

Is there a visual flow programming language based on Rust that is relatively mature?

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1. bheadmaster ◴[16 May 25 17:28 UTC] No.44007924[source]▶
> it kind of makes me wish that it was not multi-processing and Erlang, but a more mainstream language with a better library ecosystem and focused on multi-threading instead, Rust comes to mind but there could be a better one

Go sounds like a good candidate.

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2. Intermernet ◴[17 May 25 13:37 UTC] No.44014239[source]▶
There are 3 or 4 Go FBP packages. It seems to be completely capable, but FBP itself doesn't seem to have reached enough critical mass for them to be popular.

https://github.com/flowbase/flowbase is one, and it has links to to some others.