Re:Ask HN: Why does visual programming suck?
by TuringTest on Monday June 05, 2017 @05:49AM
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As a believer myself, I think the problem is that visual programming suffers the same problem known as the curse of Artificial Intelligence:
"As soon as a problem in AI is solved, it is no longer considered AI because we know how it works." [1]
Similarly, as soon as a successful visual interactive feature (be it syntax highlighting, trace inspectors for step-by-step debugging, "intellisense" code completion...) gets adopted by IDEs and become mainstream, it is no longer considered "visual" but an integral and inevitable part of classic "textual programming".
"As soon as a problem in AI is solved, it is no longer considered AI because we know how it works." [1]
Similarly, as soon as a successful visual interactive feature (be it syntax highlighting, trace inspectors for step-by-step debugging, "intellisense" code completion...) gets adopted by IDEs and become mainstream, it is no longer considered "visual" but an integral and inevitable part of classic "textual programming".
[1] http://www.artificial-intelligence.com/comic/7