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[dragonwriter]

> Visual coding is still in its infancy. We have decades of experience for how to design systems with textual code, and a ton of tools (IDEs, static analyzers, refactoring tools) that work with text.

Visual coding has been around since at least the 1970s; we have decades of experience with it, too.

[klodolph → dragonwriter]

And yet, in that time period, it has remained in its infancy.

[dragonwriter → klodolph]

Or, extensive experience has shown that it is best used as an adjunct to textual programming.