i believe it was @chr@cybre.space who i once saw say something to the effect of "the fact that we're still programming in text shows how far computer science still has to go"
i think about that a lot
there's artfulness, and a sense of the arcane, in skillfully manipulating strange tokens to form the incantations that will get your computer to do what you want
but i often think about how much of programming is only intuitive to me because i've been steeped in it for years
i think visual programming is the next step, and i'm excited to see what people are doing in that area
@typhlosion idk, it seems like people have been saying visual programming is the next big thing for a long time now, but intuitively I kinda feel like there's an expressiveness lit? unless it's a DSL kinda thing like puredata
@aeonofdiscord maybe there's an expressiveness limit in the way we're doing things now. that doesn't necessarily mean it always has to be that way. there could be some insight we're missing
either way, i think this is a problem with an eventual solution. it's worth putting thought into
@trwnh @typhlosion I guess arrrguably you could say they're not really "textual" either, but it's hard to think of a way of visually composing programming primitives that doesn't require/impose a lot of incidental abstractions
