As a believer myself, I think the problem is that visual programming suffers the same problem known as the curse of Artificial Intelligence: "As soon as a prob

As a believer myself, I think the problem is that visual programming suffers the same problem known as the curse of Artificial Intelligence: "As soon as a problem in AI is solved, it is no longer considered AI because we know how it works." [1] Similarly, as soon as a successful visual interactive feature (be it syntax highlighting, trace inspectors for step-by-step debugging, "intellisense" code completion...) gets adopted by IDEs and become mainstream, it is no longer considered "visual" but an integral and inevitable part of classic "textual programming". [1] http://www.artificial-intelligence.com/comic/7 http://www.artificial-intelligence.com/comic/7