> in reality we don't really know what its development arc is That's true, but we know we're past the rapid advancement portion of the arc. Look at the most wi

> in reality we don't really know what its development arc is That's true, but we know we're past the rapid advancement portion of the arc. Look at the most widely used languages today, the top ten, regardless of methodology[1][2][3], are dominated by languages that are ~20 to 30+ years old. > advancements in how we describe and create and interact with it As a funny, but accurate, CommitStrip[4] pointed out, you'll need to create a specification, and we already have a term for a project specification that is comprehensive and precise enough to generate a program...it's called code. > One potential example that I am looking forward to learning more about is Luna That was discussed on HN recently[5] and some people were pointing out it appeared to have made little to no progress since the previous time it was submitted and others mentioned various short-comings of these types of visual programming languages in general. Time will tell, we'll see what happens /shrug [1] https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ [2] https://octoverse.github.com/ https://octoverse.github.com/ [3] http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-2016-top-programming-languages http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-2016-top-pro... [4] http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensive-and-precise-spec/ http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensiv... [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14612680 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14612680