I see all these efforts to recreate programming with a new way of doing it as foolishness; it's the "let's rewrite the system from the ground up" fallacy writ large. Want to see some really interesting "visual" functionality that you can actually use to write useful apps? Take a look at the things IntelliJ is doing with Scala: https://blog.jetbrains.com/scala/2018/03/27/intellij-scala-p... . Today one programs in a way that makes extensive use of the GUI, to the point that the code is difficult to work with in a plain text editor, but everything's been put on as a progressive enhancement starting from thinks that were known working and addressing the concrete pain points.