Comment by spyckie2

unfortunately, not really. The language you have to speak is still in variables, buttons and code.

I'd love to be able to write in a way that feels more like documenting models rather than writing code. Admittedly this is a really spoiled point of view since ideas are cheap but execution is hard.

A quick example is as follows:

Persons have stress level from 0-100, start with random stress, and belong in the following environment conditions:

Normal: Stress + 0 / year

Low Income: Stress + 5 / year

High Income: Stress - 5 / year

Change functions:

Every year, 0-3% persons change from low income to normal income

0-1% of persons change from normal income to high income

Population has 100 persons

Groups:

stress level > 50 is "high risk of heart attack"

stress level < 20 is "low risk of heart attack"

This kind of definition should be enough to chart out # of people in the high risk group over a period time.

What I imagine is writing more or less the above as psuedocode and then a framework to automatically scaffold a basic data view and controls for time / data manipulation.

edit i took a further look at idyll, and this language can probably be built on top of idyll.