When I hear "visual programming" I tend to think of Microsoft IDEs or GUI drag-and-drop tools, but this article cites a really interesting project posted previously to HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3951255). It's kind of mind-bending from a UI standpoint. See:

http://recursivedrawing.com/draw.html

Not so sure that it will really "democratize programming"