Progress in programming is in removing the accidental complexity to get to the essential.
In the vast majority of domains, visual programming injects huge amounts of accidental complexity utterly irrelevant to the domain. So it isn't really surprising that despite it's superficially appealing elevator pitch and uniquely pretty demos, it doesn't appeal over the long term.
The domains where it works are those where the complexity is limited, or where the usually-accidental complexity is actually fundamental... for instance, in circuit layout the usually-accidental issues involved with layout actually correspond to something.
Visual programming is firmly established in some nights, and I expect it to stay in them indefinitely.
Progress in programming is in removing the accidental complexity to get to the essential.
In the vast majority of domains, visual programming injects huge amounts of accidental complexity utterly irrelevant to the domain. So it isn't really surprising that despite it's superficially appealing elevator pitch and uniquely pretty demos, it doesn't appeal over the long term.
The domains where it works are those where the complexity is limited, or where the usually-accidental complexity is actually fundamental... for instance, in circuit layout the usually-accidental issues involved with layout actually correspond to something.
Visual programming is firmly established in some nights, and I expect it to stay in them indefinitely.