A not-entirely-reasonable idea of how writing Aquarium protocols should be. Based on Google's Blockly.
Aquarium protocols are written in Krill, a Ruby DSL. While this allows the protocol developer to do nearly anything, the language is not easily approachable for the vast majority of potential users who know a great deal about biology protocols but nothing about programming in Ruby.
The purpose of this project is to create a prototype visual progamming language that contains sufficient high-level methods for biologists to compose useful protocols, but does not require any real coding experience. I aim for this project to:
- Be based on a tried and true, extensible visual code editor
- Produce working protocol code
- Constrain protocol complexity and need for coding skills
- Provide a framework for testing the usability and completeness of krill libraries with non-coders
Clone this repo and launch tests/playgrounds/advanced_playground.html. Krill blocks are defined in tests/playgrounds/krill_generator.js
