hot take: non-text representations of stuff that's fundamentally directed cyclic graphs (e.g. digital logic) are Bad bc you can't diff them
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there doesn't exist a way that allows you to render a difference of graphs embedded in 2d that scales well
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but is there a way to render 95% of real world differences well?
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not really. i mean, 2d embedding itself *already* doesn't scale, but it sort of passes if you suffer just enough
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briefly and it gave me a few ideas about how to do higher order programming in something labview-like
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you can sort of do higher-order in graph repro, but you're working against your medium
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having to do a 2d embedding artificially limits the range of abstractions you can use and i don't find that compelling
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