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Visual programming is an idea that keeps coming up because there are no examples of it, therefore it would seem like a great innovation. Because there are no e
by vegetablepotpie 5y ago
Visual programming is an idea that keeps coming up because there are no examples of it, therefore it would seem like a great innovation.
Because there are no examples of it is precisely why it’s hard to do. Those who try either end up with something too application specific to be extended, or something too abstract to be used.
Take UML, it took the abstract route. It has many diagrams, it even has flow charts. It was big in the ‘90s and never amounted to much. Turns out that to implement something in UML is harder than just writing the code it maps to in the first place.
- tempacct3575 5y agoUML did fail as a modeling tool - it was just too complex. However, flowcharts have succeeded on many platforms in many domains. (Gaming engines like Godot Visual Script and Unreal Engine Blueprints, BPM tools, Enterprise Integration tools, many hardware design tools) The best environments combine visual and code based elements so you don't get "stuck" when something is missing in the low code areas.