The benefits of visual programming are usually that it captures the domain model better than using general programming languages without any guidance. Lot of th

The benefits of visual programming are usually that it captures the domain model better than using general programming languages without any guidance. Lot of the value is in well maintained integrations to other systems. Often, if the components of the visual language were released as a library or a framework, it would provide more benefit than having to drag and drop visual boxes and arrows which don't ever make it to version control or in some very clunky way. Releasing the composable parts as text based library will not happen, because of economics. There is little money in creating libraries for the creators. All generated value would be captured by infrastructure, cloud platform providers. With visual languages, the value can be captured by selling a no-code idea to non-programming folks and especially to enterprise with deep pockets wishing to get rid of expensive engineers. Visual programming languages are an economical problem, not a technical one.