enso VS benchmarks

> At least I have yet to see one that is actually useful in the sense of a generic (or even a single-purpose-built) language

Yeah as said, https://github.com/enso-org/enso seems to be a general purpose functional programming language with visual editor, but otherwise I haven't really seen any no-code solutions worth their salt. I'm not particularly a fan of enso either, but it's the best I've seen.

Although it's not quite the same, I do like what Enso[0] is bringing to the table, especially the 1:1 visual node/language interop. Whether this is generalisable to a fully decoupled interface remains to be seen, but there's definitely potential.

[0]: https://enso.org/

I think Enso is already taken by a YC company [0]. Could get confusing.

[0] https://enso.org

COMPANY: Enso Inc. TYPE: Full time LOCATION: Europe and United States of America – fully distributed company REMOTE: Only remote VISA: No VISA required DESCRIPTION: Hi, we are Enso (enso.org, Y Combinator S21)! We are looking for an amazing Cloud engineer to join our core team. We are a remote first company, working in Europe and the USA.

Friends of mine are developing Enso (https://enso.org/), an interactive programming language with dual visual and textual representations.

Even well before Bret Victor's time, there were tools for visual programming. I have been using LabView to maintain data processing in an optical laboratory.

> I'm convinced this entire space should be visual.

At my last 2 jobs I spent entirely too much time debugging Matillion jobs, which are visual. I have my doubts that it’s the panacea that it appears to be.

That said, you may find Enso particularly interesting: https://github.com/enso-org/enso

Hi, I’m Sylwia, a co-founder of Enso, a no-code interactive ETL and data analytics tool (https://enso.org, Y Combinator S21). We just released a big update to Enso 2.0, it’s still rough around the edges, but it should already become one of the most powerful tools in your toolbox. 🧠 Enso is the most interactive ETL and data analytics tool you’ve ever used. Enso analyses the data, suggests possible next steps, and displays related help and examples-all in real time. Also, it is super fast, up to 80x faster than Python. ☀️ Do you want to use Enso for your project? We will help you! Tell us about your needs, and we will provide you with dedicated data analysts, priority bug support, and amazing Enso SWAG. ❤️ HOW DO I START? Enso is 100% Open Source and free to use. Download Enso, see our tutorials, and get in touch with us and our community!

Hi, I’m Sylwia, a co-founder of Enso, a visual / textual programming language for data analysis (https://enso.org, Y Combinator S21). We just released a big update to Enso 2.0 alpha, it’s still rough around the edges, but it should already become one of the most powerful tools in your toolbox. 🧠 WHY ENSO IS UNLIKE ANYTHING YOU'VE USED SO FAR? - FAST It is up to 80x faster than Python. - EXTENSIBLE You can include any JS visualization and use any libraries from Java, JavaScript, R, and Python. - INTERACTIVE & HELPS YOU MAKE THE NEXT STEPS Enso analyses the data, suggests possible next steps and displays related help and examples. All in real-time. ☀️ Do you want to use Enso for your project? We will help you! Tell us about your needs, and we will provide you with dedicated data analysts, priority bug support, and amazing Enso SWAG. ❤️ HOW DO I START? Enso is 100% Open Source and free to use. Download Enso, see our tutorials, and get in touch with us and our community! We would love to hear your feedback about our product, so we can improve it during next months ❤️

FAST It is up to 80x faster than Python.

🧠 Enso is the most interactive ETL and data analytics tool you’ve ever used. Enso analyzes the data, suggests possible next steps, and displays related help and examples—all in real time. Also, it is super fast, up to 80x faster than Python.

Luna was our early prototype and it indeed had significant performance problems. Our new JIT compiler is able to execute the graphs really fast (in fact, in many cases we are up to 80x faster than Python nowadays: https://github.com/enso-org/benchmarks).

However, sometimes we see that the WebGL is super-slow on some machines. May I ask you for more details, please? The important bits would be whether you experience the slowdown when using the IDE (like dragging, zooming) or when waiting for data to be computed? In both cases, we would be more than thankful for an issue containing machine spec: https://github.com/enso-org/enso/issues .

Enso should work for you with the same visual performance as in this video (this was recorded on a few years old MacBook Pro): https://youtu.be/fQvWMoOjmQk . If its not this smooth, we need to investigate it, because this is something system / machine specific.

There is unfortunately no other way for us to improve and progress from alpha to beta, so we will be very thankful for help here! <3