I'm an old Houdini user. By “old” I mean that I was using it for years, was working as TD in movie studios and have created a ton of assets used until today in some a-class movies around the world. I'm no longer using Houdini at the daily basis (which I miss sometimes), because together with a group of brilliant developers we were creating a completely new visual programming solution. Something that would change visual programming once and for all – and I think we've managed to accomplish that task

I'm writing here because:
1) I love you as the community and I feel really strong connection with you guys.
2) We are thinking about incorporating Luna into Houdini one day, so this topic could be also relative to Houdini's development.
Some of you might recognize Luna and it's connection to Flowbox (http://www.flowbox.io). [flowbox.io] In fact I'm one of the founders of both Flowbox and NewByteOrder (http://newbyteorder.com) [newbyteorder.com] and one of the guys behind Luna's compiler. Luna is the technology powering Flowbox engine and right now I'm writing about a new Luna version, that we want to release to public in the upcoming months as an Open Source project. Luna is a new and very unique general purpose (suitable not only for computer graphics) programming language. It's unique feature is the ability to switch between code and visual representation (and vice versa) whenever you like to.
If you've got some development background, here is some technical detail for you: Luna has got a powerfull type system (with dependent types support), it's purelly functional, with easy yet powerfull syntax, light threading model, speaks seamlessly with other languages (Python, Haskell, C++) and compiles to native code or web (JavaScript).
We are just releasing the first private alpha version of Luna and we are looking for alpha testers right now. By alpha testers I mean programmers, who would love to play with Luna, help us develop it to become a really powerfull and recognizable language out there. We do not provide any usefull graphics processing libraries yet, so we're currenlty mainly looking for those of you, who would like to test a “raw” new language, give us feedback and help us with further ideas and development


Here is the website with all the info: http://www.luna-lang.org [luna-lang.org]
You can ask me any questions you want - here or via mail provided at the Luna's website

All the best,
Wojciech