Show HN: Skov – A visual programming environment
This is coming close to the way I envision we’ll be programming in the future.<p>This goes from traditional 1-dimensional text-based programming to 2-dimensional visual programming.<p>What I envision is a 3-dimensional augmented-reality programming language where program elements will be floating around in 3d space around us and we use an augmented-reality interface to interact with them.<p>It’ll also enable us to do IoT programming in a very literal sense.<p>For example if you look at an air conditioner, light switch, or some other network-connected appliance that’s in front of you in the real world then the augmented-reality display will overlay the interface exposed by that device.<p>Let’s say that you’re looking at your phone (not the screen but the actual object). Since this is a device with a GPS chip your AR interface will indicate that you can do location-based programming with it.<p>Then you create the equivalent of an if-condition specifying a 10m radius around your current location.<p>if (phone is within 10m of current location) {<p>}<p>Now you look at a lightbulb in the room and your interface shows you that the lightbulb has a method for turning on.<p>You draw a line from the then-branch of the if condition to the light bulb.<p>You’ve created a program that turns on the light bulb in your room whenever you’re within 10m of this room.