When I first got into programming, I asked myself the same thing. The low hanging fruit task it creating something like a CRUD app. Trivial drag & drop CRUD f

When I first got into programming, I asked myself the same thing. The low hanging fruit task it creating something like a CRUD app. Trivial drag & drop CRUD forms are pretty achievable. Let's say you whip up something cool using visual programming, and then you have a business requirement that requires something you can't easily squeeze into your CRUD app: maybe a database join, a query that doesn't cleanly fit into your access patterns, or you just wanna make a certain thing faster. Then you design a scripting console, and now you have something that lets you build custom solutions. Well, at that point you're basically implementing non-visual programming. And at a certain point you reach the limits of what you can script in a hacky way. or you become more comfortable with the console than they UI, and you just chuck the visual programming altogether. As I'm writing this, I'm thinking that I actually do visual programming, except I'm doing IN MY MIND. Who needs a body brain interface when the goal of using your hands is to get it into your brain?, but it's already in my brain?! Well, it'd be nice to get some stuff out of my brain cuz cognitive load. And as much as I'd like to develop tech that makes it easier to get stuff out of my head, I'm mired down in trying to get the latest feature from the product team to work at all :)