I'm skeptical of visual programming, especially the most obvious 'blocks instead of text syntax' type. Spreadsheets use a formal, text-based language -- and end users learn spreadsheets fine!
agree! I bring up the difficulty because 1. need to factor it into cost-benefit -- you'd better have a lot of potential upside for it to be worth making blocks instead of text code 2. maybe solving this engineering difficulty problem => unlock more progress in programming UX
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Blocks are getting pretty civilized, i.e. Blockly. But yeah, to explore further, you had best not be betting your career. Confession: I'm falling back to syntax for a while just so I can make faster progress.
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