Honestly, academia is constantly coming up with visual design tools and they don't do much at all for the world of software development. Maybe they help bridge

Honestly, academia is constantly coming up with visual design tools and they don't do much at all for the world of software development. Maybe they help bridge students into using real IDEs and writing real programs, but they are failures, pretty much. Well I'm sure they've gotten a lot of people doctorates for writing them, so actually they accomplished their purpose.