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What are your thoughts on Visual Programming languages? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by BBloggsbott@beehaw.org to c/programming@beehaw.org

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Do you think they can be powerful enough to build production-grade applications some day or are they going to stay as educational tools or build into specific applications forever?

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[–] skami@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

There are other ways to structure and edit programs than just a bunch of source files that we manually edit through a text editor. For instance image files as in Smalltalk. I don't see any reason why a visual representation couldn't succeed in this regard. The issue, imo, is that text is really nice to work with, and it would require a very nice visual editing experience to beat the text based tools we have today.