> That being said, I think visual tools can be a good fit for tasks whose output is UI. There are applications and frameworks that allow you to drag'n'drop to compose the UI, but the code is still written in a text editor. This can work reasonably well.

Even there some people claim it works better for micro scale: widgets are ok but larger scale composition (storyboards, composing dynamic views from re-usable sub-views) are better done in code.