I remember the first programming languages I used (when I was very young) were visual. I think Flowol at primary (elementary) school was the first. They gave me

I remember the first programming languages I used (when I was very young) were visual. I think Flowol at primary (elementary) school was the first. They gave me a pretty much instant understanding of how imperative programming worked. Admittedly, I never created anything practically useful in it, but what's important is that I could imagine, from early in my life, what programming could do / was for, and put it on my cognitive radar. As a child I was more inspired by seeing the inner workings of something than being told X was possible if you learn to code. Visual languages can better expose the guts of the working automaton. That said, I agree that [current] visual programming languages have shortcomings that limit them to simple / educational scenarios.