Comment by treeman79

6 years ago

I’ve had to deal with several graphical programming languages over the years.

They only work on the most basic of use cases. The moment you want to get real work done they just get in the way.

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jtwaleson  6 years ago

Very much disagree, and completely dependent on what you define as "real work". There are many low-cost platforms out there that allow for very rapid development of big projects.

Disclaimer: I used to work for one of them (Mendix)

  • treeman79  6 years ago

    Looks like a modern Visual Basic 6. Neat.

    VB6 was so horrible and productive at the same time. Single person could build an app in days that a team of 10 would struggle with today.

    And a group of 10 could bring said app to a stretching halt.

    So many memories, good and bad.

    • jtwaleson  6 years ago

      Indeed :) I'd say the biggest problems with platforms like these are 1: meaningfully diffing (visual diffing is an unsolved problem) and 2: the enterprise pricing.

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