Node editors are also a good way to quickly compose fairly complex programs or modules even for experienced programmers. Working with them also forces you to design good interfaces for your code and eliminate tight coupling that often plagues many code bases. They do have downsides especially when using them to create complex workflows where they tend to evolve into ugly spaghetti monsters but you can prevent that by moving those workflows to code once you’ve settled on a design. This library seems like it would make that easy to do.

If you understand unix pipes then node based programming can make sense, for example in the guise of node red.

Think of nodes representing computation and lines the flow of data between distinct computational units and you have unix pipelines. This is what node red does.

This editor is more complex since it’s connects output to individual inputs.