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Re:Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children by em-bee on Friday March 31, 2023 @07:20AM (#35385334)
One of the major issues with visual languages is not being able to find the right chunk. Yes there is a search feature, but if you don't know the right word to search you are doomed

how is that different from serching the right function or library in java or python or any other language?

either you know what to search for or there is good documentation or you have to ask somewhere. i don't see how visual languages fare any worse here. except maybe that the visual chunks don't help as much in memorizing their name so you end up searching more often to find it again.

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Re:Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children by wffurr on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:20AM (#35386742)
It sounds like the discoverability of the LabView “syntax” leaves much to be desired. Perhaps because it’s a proprietary tool used by lots of non programmers, the Google results seem to be really lacking. Much harder to find a top Stack Overflow answer. And the official documentation seems poorly structured.
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