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I think we’re a lot of developers who are frustrated by constantly needing to choose between code or GUI… both have their use case, but I feel like there must be a system that combines both.

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How about a visual programming language? Plenty of 3D and CAD software uses a VPL for procedural design, which helps a ton to bring out the benefits of both

Any examples?

Grasshopper for Rhino is a big one, or VisualCAD/CAM. Blender, Houdini, or Unreal Blueprints are others. It gives you the exploration benefits of a UI plus the procedural benefits of code. Inputs tend to be auto-bound which makes exploration much, much faster.

I'm working on one for web map data visualization: https://youtu.be/GJ0ftFB8r4I?t=871

Let's lobby for adding UI semantics to MCP. Generating ad-hoc GUIs seems like a major and common enough feature to warrant it.

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