Very interesting. Having seen some similar visual languages come and go, I do hope it works out well for them. I think that pd and its cousin Max/MSP have shown that visual dataflow languages can be successful, at least in niche domains.

Regarding the universality, composability, and dual-representation claims they make, there’s some important prior art which they do not cite on their marketing page but I sure hope they’re aware of: Milner’s Bigraphical model.

The website is using some kind of cutting edge technology when applying the javascript and css making it unusuable on my low end android device with Firefox

If you’re on NixOS, you can run this in a dodgy way:

$ nix-shell -p 'steam.override { extraPkgs = pkgs: [ pkgs.iana-etc pkgs.xorg.libxkbfile ]; }).run'
$$ ./lunaInstaller
$$ ~/.luna/bin/luna-studio/current/luna-studio --appimage-extract
$$ steam-run squashfs-root/AppRun

The CEO says he’s switching over to NixOS soon, so hopefully we’ll have this properly packaged eventually.

I have been waiting for this for a while. With a solid FFI system, this has (hopefully) has a chance of replacing a lot of reporting systems floating out there in the world.

They didn’t bother to have an HTTPS download link? Not going to bother trying it.