Explorer - Visual programming language

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Explorer is an open source visual programming language created in 2020 by Hannah Ritchie and Breck Yunits and Shahid Ahmad.

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4Years Old

Demo Video

A screenshot of the visual programming language Explorer.

Programs are encoded as TSVs so are easy to read+write from a spreadsheet IDE, code, or plain text editor.

Tags: visual programming language, spreadsheet
Early development of Explorer happened in Our World In Data
TreeSheets influenced the design of Explorer
See also: (1 related languages) 6gunz
Read more about Explorer on the web: 1.

Example from the web:

selection	Canada~India
title	Population of different countries
subtitle	How many people live in each country?
type	DiscreteBar
hasMapTab	true
hideControls	true
ySlugs	Population
table
	Country	Population	Year	MapleleafsInFlag
	Canada	32000000	2020	1
	India	1000000000	2020	0
	France	50000000	2020	0
columns
	slug	type	name	notes
	Country	EntityName	Country	Unreviewed
	Population	Numeric	Population	Unreviewed
	Year	Year	Year	Unreviewed
	MapleleafsInFlag	Numeric	MapleleafsInFlag	Unreviewed

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Ternary operators	X