Flow-based programming is "the future" in the same way that Object-oriented programming was "the future" in the late 90s. If history is any evidence, in 10 yea

Flow-based programming is "the future" in the same way that Object-oriented programming was "the future" in the late 90s. If history is any evidence, in 10 years we will all be using some mix of evented/flow based GUI tool. Some people will complain that everyone else is wrong, the functional programming folks will claim they invented flow-based programming first, and we'll see everything that has been being reinvented every 3 years for the last 20 years reinvented again. And I look forward to it. This is just the way our industry is - new ideas + young energy crashing against institutional knowledge, slowly advancing the status quo.