WE NEED VISUAL PROGRAMMING. NO, NOT LIKE THAT

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Visual programming often fails to gain traction among developers because it focuses on replacing code syntax instead of visualizing important, implicit aspects of software that developers already struggle with. Developers already use visual representations like treemaps, code retention diagrams, network topologies, and memory layouts to understand and analyze different aspects of their code and systems. These visualizations can be immensely helpful for tasks like onboarding in large codebases, diagnosing performance problems, understanding data layouts, and tracking complex client-server interactions, so there still is a lot of opportunity here for startups.