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Which makes me wonder: at the end of the day 1970 or 2025 doesn't matter, it's the same plain text editing no matter what. As if we are still in the silent film
by haunter 11mo ago
Which makes me wonder: at the end of the day 1970 or 2025 doesn't matter, it's the same plain text editing no matter what. As if we are still in the silent film era of programming. Visual programming seems to be the "obvious" generation leap but we are still not there yet (something like the UE Blueprints) https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/blueprints-visual-scripting-in-unreal-engine https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/...
- smj-edison 11mo agoEvery time I've tried visual programming for anything other than data flow I find it way more painful than just typing code. It's particularly hard to follow control flow, and organization is a pain. So I'm not convinced that visual programming (as conventionally envisioned) is the future. That said, I'm a big fan of making use of visual intuition, at least how dynamic land and folk computer envision it (they also have the datalog-like reactive database that is the glue that connects different programs together in a nicer way than data flow).
- eudamoniac 11mo agoText and language didn't begin in 1970. We've been using words to communicate for a long time, and text is pretty good for that. We don't communicate complexity to humans via hieroglyphs; why would we think visual programming is somehow superior to code?