My main issue with many of these tests and reviews is that most of the results focus on testing the harness (in this case, likely Claude Code) rather than evaluating the model’s inherent performance.
Hey! Thanks for spending time with the playground – we're glad you found it engaging! You've hit the nail on the head with the "building blocks" analogy.
We want to emphasize that while Open Node Protocol enables no-code development, it's absolutely not limited to it. The Open Node Protocol is a specification, a set of standards for how these "blocks" (nodes) interact. Developers can build nodes in any programming language and with any framework they choose. The visual assembly is just one way to use ONP; the underlying power comes from the standardized communication between nodes, regardless of how they're built or connected. This means experienced developers can create highly sophisticated, code-based nodes and leverage the benefits of modularity and AI integration at a much deeper level. Think of it as a way to create reusable, interoperable components, regardless of whether you're connecting them visually or programmatically. In fact, in the near future, you can ask AI to assemble the nodes for you.
A great next step would be to check out our tutorial[1] – it walks you through the core concepts and helps you build your first node.
I did an evaluation on the various frameworks 2 years ago, and it largely came down to only these 2 choices:
- React (if you want the largest support, packages, community, but sacrifice on performance)
- SolidJS [1] (best performance, composability, low-level primitives, but sacrifice on packages/community)
Every other choice like Angular, Vue, Svelte are just somewhere in between these 2 spectrums which I felt was not worth it. Either choose the one with the largest ecosystem or one which has the best primitives & performance.
- React (vdom, slow) (largest ecosystem)
- Vue (vdom, faster than react) (large community)
- Svelte (fine-grain, faster) (best dx pre-v5) (composability is still not as flexible in v5 compared to SolidJS) (small ecosystem)
- SolidJS (fine-grain, fastest, most consistent) (dx similar to react) (small ecosystem)
Much needed feature for typography! The biggest pain is when I need to visually vertically center a text with an icon. If you have an [ICON] followed by upper case character (e.g. Hello), the (H) will always visually look too high to be vertically centered with the [ICON] because the actual height of the text that is calculated always account for hanging characters like "g, y", etc.
Great to see more people thinking about this space. Totally agree on the sentiment that we should be able to visualize/describe and build business logic in a very simple manner. The way I've been thinking about this is something like Legos where we can compose any logic, app, workflow we want visually and that anyone can build and share these blocks. This is almost similar to NPM packages, but for non-developers.
My attempt on this is https://openexus.com where the goal is really to create some form of universal plug-and-play building blocks. Your approach is almost very low-level with direct translation to code. My attempt is slightly higher-level (but developers can create as low level as they want). More importantly, the visual diagram build on openexus is a reactive graph (almost like spreadsheet), not a sequential directional flow graph (like node-red, or yahoo pipes).
Would love to chat if you are up for it. m at lominming dot com.
Obviously there are huge similarities to solid-js and other signals based framework with creating a signal, creating computed/derived, creating effects, etc. Would it be fair to say that Svelte 5 is going to more "runtime reactivity" rather than compiled time?