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JavaScript Gets Visual With Waterbear

Posted by timothy on from the click-and-drag-and-two-and-three dept.

mikejuk writes "Waterbear, a new 'Scratch-like' visual programming language, made its debut at a JavaScript conference this week. Basically you can put together a JavaScript program by putting blocks together and entering some parameters. The output is JavaScript that you can use in other web pages. The Waterbear system runs in a browser, it's HTML5 based, and needs no installation. You can't help but think that this is the way all programming will be done in the future."

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  1. Tool Wanted by Anne+Thwacks · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am still waiting for a development tool that allows me to write PHP by throwing cowpats at the screen with my WiiMote. (It wont degrade the quality of my PHP code, I promise, but I cant speak fo others!).

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  2. Only sometimes... by LighterShadeOfBlack · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can't help but think that this is the way all programmng will be done in the future.

    Yes, occasionally, when I'm at my most cynical.

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  3. yeah, the future by shadowrat · · Score: 5, Funny

    What if there was a language where each block was a character? then you could string them together to form more complex commands, variable names, and flow control! If you wanted to add the values in the A and B blocks, you would just put a + block between them. you could then use the assignment block to put the resulting value into the C block! you'd probably never need to learn more than 50 or so blocks and you could do just about ANYTHING with that!