NoFlo 2.x is coming

It is nearly a decade since NoFlo 1.0, and it is time for a new major release. NoFlo was on hiatus for a while as I worked on the boat but now on the world cruise there are good chunks of time sitting at anchor waiting for a weather window. And so we’re close to a 2.x release. The NoFlo ecosystem is quite big, and the current breed of LLMs and the Pi Coding Harness have made the sizable mechanical conversion and upgrading tasks a lot more feasible. TL;DR: ES Modules with zero external dependencies, no build needed. Backpressure, better firing patterns and network shutdown system. New Reticulum-based remote control protocol designed to work over WebSockets, TCP, and LoRa. Assembly Line Programming support is now first-party. Ports can be typed with JSON Schemas. LLMs and Flow-Based Programming Before going to the actual changes in the 2.x series, it is probably good to tackle the elephant in the room: are dataflow tools like NoFlo at all relevant in a world where you can just throw…