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Maybe you want to look at Modelica [1] for inspiration? It is an open modeling language standard with open source implementations. It should do what you want. maybe abit too declarative however (you can always use the algorithm block instead of the equation block though).

[1] https://www.modelica.org/

I was aware of OpenModelica, but hadn't looked at the project in any great depth. I think it's a lot more ambitious than my project, which is restricted (at present) to a single model of computation.

I remember as a kid that there was a thing called Visual C++ which sounds like what you're describing. It let me draw a GUI and connect functions to button actions or entry field contents.

Now I just use emacs and gcc because I write embedded code mostly but I'm trying to understand why your idea is different? Being open source?

Honestly .. I would love for this to happen.