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GPVPL - General Purpose Visual Programming Language

Table of Contents

1. Table of Contents
2. Introduction
3. Roadmap
4. Plug and Play Front-end

Introduction

GPVPL is a Visual Programming Language built with two goals.

A General Purpose Language

A lot of the widely used Visual Programming Languages are either built for education (Scratch, Snap!), built to function inside specific applications (Blender's node graphs) or built for specific use cases (Cameleon, Nodal).

GPVPL is being built with the goal to be a general purpose language that can be used for a wide variety of tasks.

Easy transition to other languages

Some of the Visual Programming languages built for education and giving introduction to programming are tailored to work with sprites and building graphical applications.

GPVPL is being built with the goal to make it easier for users to transition to other widely used programming languages (like Java and python). This is done by using terminology, syntax and concepts similar to these languages, making it easier for the users to correlate the concepts in those languages.

Roadmap

Feature / Capability	Backend	Frontend
Introduce Basic Data types - Int, String, Float, Bool	In Progress
Introduce Basic Opeators - +, -, *, /, %	In Progress
Introduce Vairable creation and assignments	In Progress
Introduce Conditional operators - >, <, >=, <=, ==, !=
Introduce if/else statements
Introduce Loops
Introduce Functions

Plug and Play Front-end

The backend runs in two modes:

1. Executor - In this mode, the backend will execute the code. This code can be generated from the Front-end and is a JSON file.
2. Web Server - In this mode, the backend will run as a server and expose REST endpoints. The Front-end will use this API to run the Visual code.

This means that you are not tied to the Front-end that is available in this repo. You can build your own front end and use it with the backend to run the code.

gpvpl's Issues

Implement Integer Data type