[akitzmiller]

For something like this to be successful, I think it has to have some kind of domain focus. I've been working in bioinformatics-adjacent jobs for the last couple decades and I've seen things like this get used when there were a lot of integrated, domain-specific tools. Even then, the users were a curious slice of the population that could think like a programmer, but had not bothered to learn a language.

It also has to have a lot of buy-in and support. As everyone here is fully aware, a lot of problems get solved by Googling for a Stack Overflow answer. That's tough to do with a niche-y tool.

Not saying this isn't a good thing; it's just that it'll be difficult to be successful as a general purpose tool.

[flarg]

I work in the software side of the same field and visual flow programming tools like this help bioinformatics and scientists visualise analytics code bases, but they're not sold well to customers. Somehow the teams that sell these products still think in terms of low code or data science, when they probably should be speaking in terms of translational medicine

[nooorofe]

Talend is sold sort of well

(ex. https://help.talend.com/r/mjoDghHoMPI0yuyZ83a13Q/YYVSsDiyJ3v...)

[anakaine]

Talend is, in my experience, flaky and otherwise quite poor at what it aims to achieve.

Have a look at FME by SAFE software if you want to see what a better, more well looked after version of what Talend could look like is.