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Re:Ask HN: Why does visual programming suck? by crazygringo on Sunday June 04, 2017 @07:48PM (#14484374)
I suspect it has to do entirely with affordances.

Programming in text, you have to learn, in advance, what the commands are that you're allowed to type, and remember them. That's a heavy up-front investment.

Visual programming generally makes it much clearer exactly what your range of options are -- the goal is for the learning curve to be far easier.

Re:Ask HN: Why does visual programming suck? by Too on Monday June 05, 2017 @01:46AM (#14485474)
Good autocompletion with intuitively named standard library comes close to this. When coding c# in visual studio I very rarely have to look at documentation, you just guess what the class or function might be called and get the options presented for you.
Re:Ask HN: Why does visual programming suck? by hasenj on Sunday June 04, 2017 @10:58PM (#14485001)
Could be an interesting feature for IDEs to start studying certain control structures, not just function calls and parameters.