I don't think it is the paradigm that sucks but the existing implementations...it is a hard design problem to solve. No one has quite figured out the right approach....often the existing implementations make you click and fill out enough fields to make the entire exercise much worse than just coding something up in a text editor.
I believe the solution lies in coming up with a way to compose pre-built components into complete applications...I think the existing efforts involving Angular,React,VueJS,Vaadin..etc are all pointing in the right direction....I have been working on Solvent (www.crudzilla.com) for sometime now and solving the UI building (drag-drop) is something that I am still actively thinking about...one of these days someone will crack the problem :)
> I don't think it is the paradigm that sucks but the existing implementations...it is a hard design problem to solve. No one has quite figured out the right approach....often the existing implementations make you click and fill out enough fields to make the entire exercise much worse than just coding something up in a text editor.
True. That's why a proper visual programming environment should build on existing text-based environments and offer the same capabilities while adding power. Not disregard all progress, conventions, and achievements and start form scratch offering some unique features, but at the same time taking away stuff that's already been figured out.
I believe the solution lies in coming up with a way to compose pre-built components into complete applications...I think the existing efforts involving Angular,React,VueJS,Vaadin..etc are all pointing in the right direction....I have been working on Solvent (www.crudzilla.com) for sometime now and solving the UI building (drag-drop) is something that I am still actively thinking about...one of these days someone will crack the problem :)