You make some good points. But I think part of it come down to the fact that text is a more compact representation than nodes and arrows. I wrote a visual progr

You make some good points. But I think part of it come down to the fact that text is a more compact representation than nodes and arrows. I wrote a visual programming tool for data and I think the visual approach is superior for many use cases in data processing. But I chose not to do it using a visual programming language. I did it in C++. Even if the visual programming tooling improved significantly, I still don't think I would choose it for general purpose programming.