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It does suck. It totally does. Because when you sell VP, you sell VOP (visual-only programming).

If you offer a visual interface as an add-on to my favorite programming language, be my guest. I don't have a problem with that and I might even try it on a nice sunny weekend afternoon.

Just don't try to lock me in on a VOP platform and expect me to sing praises for it.

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the diagrams are just different ways to draw expressions, you are actually editing text, it's really the same data. one diagram implies many different but behaviourally equivalent expressions, so the diagram is actually the more efficient way to encode the thing

this is ignoring all the UX issues of course. but we are quite confident eventually everyone will use such diagrams as at least sidekicks in their text-based-code

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