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Here is the link to the Kickstarter, since TechCrunch seems to be having issues with that:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/noflo/noflo-development-...

I'll be happy to answer any questions on NoFlo or the campaign here after I sleep a bit :-)

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So I first encountered your project a while ago, and it looks like its come a long way. Congrats!

Just curious, but can you point to any folks who are using NoFlo (not necessarily the new visual editor tool) for ETL? I do a lot of ETL type work, and would love an excuse to begin to use Node/Javascript instead of Python. Python is awesome of course, but there are certainly advantages to Node's event-driven architecture that would help me, since a lot of times I'm processing huge CSV files that can't fit into memory.

I think NoFlo, combined with the new visualization tool, would have a very big advantage in ETL. ETL workflows are one of those things that are so often shared with executive types in a visual format anyway.....

Neat project for sure. I think the powerful idea I like about your approach is more that you are using flow control to add structure at higher levels but still leaning on traditional coding to implement the details. Visualizing communication/interdependencies and have that front and center leads to people keeping it cleaner than usually where it's hard to visualize how complex the communication has become except by imagining it and mentally parsing the code in your head.

"NoFlo moves code out of applications and into reusable components that can be visually wired together by doers, not just coders."

That sounds cool, but I don't get it. I don't see anything that would allow a "doer" to jump in. A "doer" is not going to know what a string or an array is. Am I missing something here?

Awesome project; deserved a post!

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