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by nitrogen 1810 days ago
It does in some. Visual programming environments are common for setting up the giant sound systems (think hundreds of channels of high-quality audio) that run everything from movie theaters to conference venues to parliamentary halls to amusement parks. Some of them support encapsulation of audio or logic elements into reusable packages.

Another technique they use for abstraction before that point include one-to-n on-page connectors and multi-signal buses when the visual wires get to be too cumbersome.