Hi There,
To continue on from noisecraft, another flow editor: Flowcode - appeared yesterday at HN - a long discussion of visual v. textual programming for those interested.
I personally love these flow editors where you can zoom-in/out and navigate with your mouse directly, something that node-red is lacking, i think it is also the reason why many nr users keep creating their flows on the left of their screens, purely because navigating is not convenient.
left side v. right side has a lot to do with the input v. output arrangement in Node-RED.
Flows have a natural tendency to go from left to right simply because inputs are left and outputs are right.
If I ever created a flow editor then step one: configurable input/output location: left/right, right/left, top/bottom, bottom/top ...
It would confuse the f**k out of everyone but then left hand people would being able to move from right to left! And people who stand on their heads could work from bottom to top.
Are we also going to write from right to left?
I'm mostly left-handed with the mouse, but I also like to use my right hand, without changing the settings on the mouse.
Only if you start with the output and imagine the input that might have generated it. I.e. to work right to left, all that one has to do is work from the output to the input. Something that languages like Prolog and Erlang actually do!
Hang on though, wouldn't Node-REDs' left to right be better suited to left handedness? Being right handed, I'm constantly pulling from left to right instead of pushing to the right.... although using a touchpad (as I do) there is little hand movement involved.
Remove the navigation from unreal’s blueprint editor and let’s see how people will ‘like’ it. The left to right is somewhat natural but not scrolling right is due to the navigation behavior
I think it is more to do with Western languages which operate left-to-right, top-to-bottom. Obviously, if you came from many other countries, the opposite would be true.
I am left handed but I use the mouse on my right. That's because lots of people ASSUME that the mouse should be in your dominant hand, but generally, that isn't necessary. The keyboard, on the other hand requires more dexterity to use at speed. So maybe it is because I learned keyboard at the start of my career, the mouse wasn't introduced until rather later.
