Greg's House of Treats

It is becoming increasingly apparent to me that a dataflow programming model will be useful for plastimatch.  Useful characteristics of such a dataflow system would be

• Well-specified programming language
• Library with embeddable interpreter
• Framework for calling C++ functions from interpreter
• Graphical editor of dataflows

A superficial survey suggests that the pickings are pretty slim indeed.  But here are a few options.

• NoFlo
• Has graphical editor
• Has a language, or uses json
• Interpreter written in coffeescript (javascript), therefore would require embedding a javascript interpreter
• CppFBP
• Contains a crude graphical editor
• Has language
• Interpreter?
• Requires Lua and Boost
• https://github.com/jpaulm/cppfbp
• Chameleon
• Has graphical editor
• Has language
• Not obvious interpreter can be embedded
• Written in C++
• http://www.shinoe.org/cameleon/
• Yadinku
• Has graphical editor
• Has language
• Compiler for C++, but no interpreter
• http://statecharts.org/
• CAL / RVC-CAL
• Language only
• orcc
• Has graphical editor
• Seemingly no interpreter
• Requires eclipse
• opendf
• Has compiler, but seemingly no interprete
• PureData
• Has graphical editor
• Has language
• Has audio-video cruft, not sure this can be separated
• Ptolemy II
• Has C compiler, but seemingly no interpreter
• Google Cloud Dataflow
• Apache Pig
• Lucid
• Language only
• plucid
• Interpreter, written in C
• GPL license
• https://code.google.com/p/plucid/
• SISAL
• Compiler, but no interpreter
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/sisal/
• http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII/
• YAWL
• Has graphical editor
• More focused on business processes than code
• Seemingly tasks can map to Java, but not C++
• CPN Tools
• Has graphical editor
• Seemingly no interpreter, and no compile
• vvvv
• Has graphical editor
• Research-only license

References

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14613045/graphical-dataflow-composition-framework
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/461796/dataflow-programming-languages/6774990
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/71979/dataflow-programming-patterns-and-frameworks/21680911