Scripting a radically-distributed world

The built world increasingly comprises objects with at least some information-processing capability, and these objects are rapidly acquiring the ability to intercommunicate. The problem of how to orchestrate huge numbers of independently designed devices into coherent environments is becoming acute. A pure dataflow programming paradigm is a natural choice for addressing this challenge. We present an information centric, recursive, hybrid visual programming environment that addresses many of the usability problems that have plagued previous attempts at large-scale visual dataflow programming environments.