The first visual programming language I can find is from 1966. They have always been tiny, niche things over a period where we've had waves of text-based languages rise and fall.
One of the striking things for me when I talk with visual programming enthusiasts is that they very rarely have looked at the decades of research. And if you try to talk with them about the history, they seem actively averse.
There's a joke that some people have ten years of experience, and some people just have one year of experience ten times over. My experience has been that visual programming is more like the latter, but for 50 years.
The first visual programming language I can find is from 1966. They have always been tiny, niche things over a period where we've had waves of text-based languages rise and fall.
One of the striking things for me when I talk with visual programming enthusiasts is that they very rarely have looked at the decades of research. And if you try to talk with them about the history, they seem actively averse.
There's a joke that some people have ten years of experience, and some people just have one year of experience ten times over. My experience has been that visual programming is more like the latter, but for 50 years.