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To me the thing that visual programming excels at is parallelism. Traditional procedural languages are fundamentally one-dimensional, and parallelism is diffic
by Pxtl 8y ago
To me the thing that visual programming excels at is parallelism. Traditional procedural languages are fundamentally one-dimensional, and parallelism is difficult to view in 1D.
The biggest challenge is how much of our tech stack is based on raw text. Anything that isn't text-obsessed means you can't use diff, git, grep, vi, etc.
- sebastos 8y agoThough it's important to remember that this doesn't necessarily preclude the existence of a "visual git", for instance.