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> 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.




Agreed, that is more or less the approach I have taken with Solvent...it has a familiar IDE environment with the additional visual layer on top of it.




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