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Re:Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck by jayd16 on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @01:17PM (#19028562)
I think the take away from existing visual languages is that they can be quite nice but the less they mimic imperative blocks with drag and drop the better. Functional programming is a better fit.

They work well for stream processing.

They can often be more elegant in how they define and consume inputs. Many more parameters can be supported in a visually pleasing way, which cleans up parameter over loading and makes it easier to compose function block together without making Tuple types.

This could very well exist but I think a visual Lisp would be interesting.

Re:Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck by lispm on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @03:17PM (#19029459)
There are visual Lisps. They are for example used in music composition:

http://www2.siba.fi/PWGL/pwgl.html

http://repmus.ircam.fr/openmusic/overview

Re:Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck by wires on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @01:32PM (#19028710)
yep, the diagrams are like typed purely functional programs

also stream processing is possible, we can (at least in theory) use the same diagram to compose state machines or stream processing functions or DB queries or ...