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8 pointsGoatmouth10 comments

Efforts have been made at graphical programming for decades now, to no avail. I see those as a far lesser threat than better frameworks and infrastructure automation that allow fewer programmers to accomplish more in less time. The real driver of unemployment is productivity.

The only time I've ever had any sort of ease with graphical programming was with scratch, and that was because you could type the name of the blocks in, just.. like.. regular.. programming...

It's like comparing controllers/joypads to mouse/keyboard, one is obviously going to be so much more precise and efficient at most things. Scrolling through 3 layers of toolbox vs typing a word. It's just not a short path!

The only graphical programming language I have used is Labview, which I actually found to be good for running basic sensors/actuators.

My biggest complaints about it aren't actually related to the graphical element, but the tooling itself: long compile times, horrid window management. The only language level complaint I have is that the data persistence model is buried in menus, and not readily visible (so if you have a function for computing a running average, by default, it computes the average of all values put into the function anywhere in your program, but you can set it to have a different instance at each spot you put the function).

I wouldn't use it to write things that are typically considered "programs", but there is a wide range between full programs, and things that we want to be able to make the computer do

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I work for the company that builds this; and no... I'm NOWHERE getting nervous about "no code".

On the contrary :D

Not nervous at all.

This takes me back ten years ago when "SOA" was the buzzword with companies like IBM selling complex GUIs that allowed you to drag and drop business nodes around on a page to generate a business workflow: FTP upload here, send a web service there, connect to legacy system over there, etc.

Sure it looked impressive to managers, but all I could see was clever marketing that would eventually force customers to hire "SOA consultants" whenever any of that complex generated Java/XML/etc fell over. So much for no more developers.

This looks very much like the same thing.

damn, so many buzz words I varely remember now.

Wake me up when they can bootstrap a compiler for graphical programming using graphical programming itself. Until such time... not that nervous.

I use Caspio which is essentially a graphical front end for Microsoft SQL. It is a good product for rapid application development with minimal administration.

Isn't it against site policy to make up titles for posts? I don't see that link text anywhere in the linked page's content.

It is indeed. We didn't see this earlier.

Submitted title was "“No code” is starting to make me nervous".

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