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Fabric Project

49 pointsby brcmthrowawayyesterday at 10:32 PM14 commentsview on HN

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fuzzythinkertoday at 9:48 AM

Link to rendered samples: https://fabric-project.github.io/showcase.html

Note the samples link in github goes to the .fabric samples, not rendered ones.

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Yorictoday at 8:07 AM

I've always been weirded out by these "programming by connecting boxes" environments. In my experience, the only benefit they bring is removing the need to understand the syntax, which is the simplest part of programming, at the cost of making it much more complicated to find out the boxes, figure out what can connect where, looking up documentation, etc.

Interestingly, I don't get this feeling with Snap! or Scratch. Sure, they're not designed for me, but they're intuitive, and they just work.

Not sure where the disconnect lies. Quite possibly in my brain.

dheepakgtoday at 1:54 AM

Should have a better name. There is Fabric, a library in Python, microsoft's SaaS offering

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ergocodertoday at 2:30 AM

Fabric is a extremely overused name.

ludicrousdisplatoday at 8:43 AM

Is there anything similar that is not limited to Apple?

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vascotoday at 6:40 AM

Looks like too many boxes needed for simple things.