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Various links related to this have come up in the past few days, and I think they mostly betray a lack of understanding of the weaknesses of text-based programm

Various links related to this have come up in the past few days, and I think they mostly betray a lack of understanding of the weaknesses of text-based programming, and a lack of imagination as to how visual programming could actually work. One person who's done a lot of thinking about this is Bret Victor, and I encourage anyone interested to watch his videos: http://worrydream.com/ http://worrydream.com/ Here's a project that's trying to split the difference between visual programming and text-based programming: https://luna-lang.org/ https://luna-lang.org/

wdanilo 8y ago
Thank you jakelazaroff for mentioning Luna <3 ! We, at Luna, are trying to blend the difference between text and visual programming, allowing people to choose the best tool for their use case – visual representation for high-level system modeling and textual representation for low-level components. Personally, I've been creating visual programming languages for years for such domains as visual effects, allowing artists (people with very limited / none programming skills) to create outstanding physics simulations systems or automated geometry processing by their own. Seeing people being able to create something that was so far not accessible for them is amazing. Readers of this topic might also be interested in reading our blog post about why visual languages are actually very useful here: https://medium.com/@luna_language/luna-the-visual-way-to-create-software-c4db520d6d1e https://medium.com/@luna_language/luna-the-visual-way-to-cre...