Rethinking Visual Programming with Go

https://divan.dev/posts/visual_programming_go

by divan • 7 years ago

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theamk• 7 years ago

There is a whole field of Visual Programming Languages or VPLs, and there were literally hundreds of languages developed over the last 60 years.
By every single metric, modern programming languages landscape is 100% dominated by textual programming languages with zero exceptions.
Why is it so? Text is clearly not the best way to represent everything, and all those bright minds working on the visual programming languages were clearly onto something.

This section reads weird -- I'd think that after seeing 60 years worth of failing visual programming attempts, one would accept that maybe text _is_ clearly the best way to represent programs. How can one say that text is "clearly not the best" in fact of such overwhelming evidence?

divan• 7 years ago

Great point, thanks, I'll address this!

Rethinking Visual Programming with Go

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