It bought in some concepts from dependent typing and constraint solving however

Was pretty proud of the way I approached polymorphism and also dimensionality (like 2d/3d textures and four channel vs single outputs)

But making sure everything was consistent between the two representations was a bit of a drag

Ran into so many of these issues when I was trying to make wbbl happen. Did make the choice to separate the edit structure and runtime codegen one which had some nice upsides in that nodes that were similar structurally or visually could share logic where it made sense.

Sounds nice. Back to the days before your toaster wasn't trying to surveil you...

I've always wanted something along the lines of augmented glasses to help with audio processing issues and recall/working memory but Meta doing it makes it too gross to consider

No haha. No clue who that is