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Visual programming languages already exist.

• bawolff 4y ago
  The breakthrough would be making one that professional programmers actually like.
  • captaincaveman 4y ago
    yeah it could use something like pictorial writing, lets call it hieroglyphics or better still a logogram language where each symbol means a thing like Chinese, hmm or maybe we could create an alphabet of characters where on there own they don't mean anything but with a simple small set we could combine create as many words as we want and we could program with ... half joking I don't really know much about languages, I just don't see how a graphical programming model would be better than a text based one in expressiveness or compactness?
    • bawolff 4y ago
      People have tried that with APL actually. But yeah, i tend to doubt as well, but i still think its an interesting direction for programming language research.
  • zirgs 4y ago
    Unreal Engine built-in visual scripting language is pretty good. Plenty of professional programmers use it. And the only programming languages that nobody complains about are those that nobody uses.