The road to here is littered with Dataflow attempts. I am thinking in particular of the Transputer and the Hypercube, though I also came across several others that never made it out of the lab. I have a design bucket list of my own - back in 2000-5 I designed a Dataflow graphical progamming &quot;language&quot; we called VNOS. Its really nice (of course I&#x27;m biassed:). But that list of mine is waiting for me to get the time and energy to build a hardware version of VNOS out of a large array of very tiny CPUs, with VNOS as the programming and operations UI. FPGA tech passed my requirements a few years ago, all I need now is the time, money, and energy<p>But DF has always had this uphill battle against the traditional Control flow paradigms, which all the major development methodologies support. Procedural programmers have problems grokking it. Naive non-programmers love it, but they have no say in the industry.<p>One has to wonder if now MS is spending serious time looking at programming with Petri nets it might finally get some mainstream traction.