[negentropicdev]

100% agree with the calculation expression difficulty in visual languages. Stuff like math and binary communications over serial, TCP, etc. just feel incredibly tedious for what I know how to do in 1 or two lines of C.

What I definitely appreciate in my professional life is the ability to directly map the high level design of an application or module into nodes on a diagram and then I descend down filling in the implementation. Not really much of a difference in developing in text languages except that there's a physical layout that matches, what should have been written, nearly directly the documented UML, user stories, flow charts, and sometimes state diagrams of design documentation. When you're doing combined architecture and implementation work it can nearly eliminate the mind-load difference between the two, or at least it does for me, having now worked in the visual environment I've used for 8 years. (I grokked it many years ago)