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Agree that these tools are enormously useful for non-programmers to automate things. I think the biggest area where all visual programming languages is in scalability, flexibility, and speed compared to a skilled (text) programmer. There is absolutely space for these tools, but I think that the wide majority of people who spend enough time programming will prefer text.

The tradeoff between visual and text programming feels like a classic learning curve vs. skill ceiling tradeoff.



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