Programming is inherently difficult. We can do a lot in tooling and increasingly higher level languages to help make a lot of the details a lot easier, but a th

Programming is inherently difficult. We can do a lot in tooling and increasingly higher level languages to help make a lot of the details a lot easier, but a the core, it remains abstract symbolic manipulation. It seems to me (and I have by no means done an extensive survey of the field, so YMMV) that efforts in visual programming suffers from mis-diagnosing that the difficult part of programming is the act of writing the code (indeed, the empty editor is intimidating and code in any language looks impenetrable to outsiders), rather than understanding what code to write in the first place.