> Programmers seem to talk about visual programming languages as if they’ve failed, but outside of software engineering they appear to me to be more popular tha

> Programmers seem to talk about visual programming languages as if they’ve failed, but outside of software engineering they appear to me to be more popular than text-based languages. There's a large category of conventional wisdom on HN that's categorically false yet constantly repeated—the idea that "visual programming languages failed and are now dead" is one of those. It's... irritating :-)