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Comparison to existing tools and services
What are the advantages over existing solutions like https://noflojs.org/ or any from the tens of open source alternatives allowing one to use flow-based programming visually and on basically any device (especially IoT newadays)?
Apart from technology (Go instead of JavaScript) the main difference is that Slang aims to be completely visual. Many tools that exist call themselves flow-based but require coding in the end, at least for individual components. I wrote an article comparing Node-RED and Slang. You can find it here: Slang and Node-RED, a Comparison
Right now, there is not much documentation or a feature overview, so you understandably opened this issue. Currently, we are working on a new user interface which consumes most of our time. But of course we know this is crucial and will definitely provide detailed information in the future.
@dumblob In the mean time we released documentation at https://bitspark.de/slang/docs/ Are you currently using any of those alternatives in production?
I've looked at the documentation and it looks quite complex - do you have any practical (not just functional) examples? Feel free to get inspiration from examples for NoFlo (Node-RED has also some good examples even though Node-RED itself is quite limited compared to other flow programming environments/languages).