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by jbpetersen 3483 days ago
> ...my impression of visual programming environments is that they never scale, and it might be an inherent issue.

Eventually they won't need to.

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Can you elaborate?
I think visual programming calls for a dramatically different style of programming (along with the dramatically different tooling) in order to take advantage of it well. And I think part of that is working well with many small snippets of code rather than much more monolithic functions.

Though I'm not sure quite what it'll take for it to make sense for people to collectively give visual programming the attention it needs to improve beyond being a mostly useless oddity.