Aurora (StrangeLoop 2013 demo)

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Chris Granger demos Aurora at Strange Loop 2013, a prototype programming environment that tries to make building software visual and direct. The demo includes a TodoMVC example built in a fraction of the usual code. Aurora later led to the Eve project.

HN people share it as the concrete picture of a graphical, immediate programming environment, and as the concept behind Eve.

“where the TodoMVC demo beats even Polymer in LOC count and readability”
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@spwestwood2014 · in “Auroro Demo from Strangeloop 2013 [video]”
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@lebek2014 · in “Aurora (StrangeLoop 2013 demo)”
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@jamii2013 · in “Graphical Programming: I Really Hope This Is the Future”
Sounds like this is what you want - link EDIT: Or even ▶ this video
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@hme2014 · in “Beyond Light Table”
Anything to do with Aurora ? ▶ this video
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@gagege2014 · in “Beyond Light Table”
▶ this video Here's a demo they did a while ago. I think it kind of explains what he intends to do with Eve, at least as a concept. On an older blog post he said that it has changed a lot since this demo.
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@fiatjaf2014 · in “Rich Command Shells”
What about the Aurora/Eve thing? ▶ this video It is a shell, isn't it?
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@Detrus2014 · in “Toward a better programming”
Toward a better computer UI The Aurora demo did not look like a big improvement until maybe ▶ this video where the TodoMVC demo beats even Polymer in LOC count and readability. I've been thinking of similar new "programming" as the main computer UI, to ensure it's easy to use and the main UI people know. Forget Steve Jobs and XEROX, they threw out the baby with the bath water. Using a computer is really calling some functions, typing some text input in between, calling some more. Doing a few common tasks today is opening a web browser clicking Email reading some replying getting a reply back, possibly a notification clicking HN commenting on an article in a totally different UI than email going to threads tab manually to see any response And the same yet annoyingly different UI deal on another forum, on youtube, facebook, etc. Just imagine what the least skilled computer users could do if you gave them a computing interface that didn't reflect the world of fiefdoms that creates it. FaceTwitterEtsyRedditHN fiefdoms proliferate because of the separation between the XEROX GUI and calling a bunch of functions in Command Line. Siri and similar AI agents are the next step in simple UIs. What people really want to do is tell Dustin you don't agree with his assessment of Facebook's UI changes type/voice your disagreement share with public And when you send Dustin and his circle of acquaintances a more private message, you type it share message with Dustin and his circle of designers/hackers To figure out if more people agreed with you or Dustin sentiment analysis of comments about Dustin's article compared to mine That should be the UI more or less. Implement it however, natural language, Siri AI, a neat collection of functions. Today's UI would involve going to a cute blog service because it has a proper visual template. This requires being one of the cool kids and knowing of this service. Then going to Goolge+ or email for the more private message. Then opening up an IDE or some text sentiment API and going through their whole other world of incantations. Our glue/CRUD programming is a mess because using computers in general is a mess.
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