[beemoe]

I have some professional experience using a visual programming language on the same files with many coworkers. Here are the biggest pain points I experienced:

Diff, merge, search/replace, copying code directly from chat or websites into a REPL or file to try it out.

I have used a handful of other visual languages and when I see a new one I am on the lookout for use cases that involve more than one programmer, sometimes not even knowing each other; features that make it compatible with existing file and line oriented version control systems or provide an alternative(which is a project in itself, hard, and might not be as modular)

Learning about visual programming languages gave me a new appreciation for the simple elegance of text and IMHO the future of them will be those that easily map back and forth between text and graphics so you can have the best of both worlds and continue to stand on the shoulders of giants.

Does anyone konw of languages that translate to/from text well?