[tomasGiden]

I’ve seen some projects succeed with (because of?) visual programming languages and others fail because of them.

My general feeling is that a visual programming language excels as domain specific languages where the domain is quite visual.

Ive seen two problems with visual programming languages which are quite severe in my opinion.

1. Merging sucks. Merging visuals are not straight forwards. I’ve seen companies do trunk based development before it is was hip just to get around it.

2. As with all high level languages, without an understanding about the overhead of different constructs, it is easy to create very inefficient solutions. On cloud systems it may be easy to throw more processing power at the problem. On embedded systems, less so.