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Different people imagine different things with the term "visual programming", but there are kind of common goals. This is a great read.
<https://drossbucket.com/2021/06/30/hacker-news-folk-wisdom-on-visual-programming/>

HN Thread <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27705631>

"You can quickly spin up an experimental language and try it out because the infrastructure -- editor and command shell -- already exist. This is one reason why we enjoy such a proliferation of new language ideas. New ideas in graphical software require intensive effort to try out."

"Viewed through this lens there’s almost an argument that visual spaghetti is a feature not a bug — at least you can directly see that you’ve created a horrible mess, without having to be much of a programming expert."

Follow-up small thread <https://twitter.com/drossbucket/status/1410991753423953925|https://twitter.com/drossbucket/status/1410991753423953925>