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We need visual programming. No, not like that
Why do we keep building visual programming environments? Why do we never use them? What should we do instead?
Here are some that interest me: Treemap: statistical overview of files in a codebase Sourcetrail: a class hierarchy and dependency browser Code retention over time The Idris documentation uses one well here to show what they'll be talking about before they introduce a bunch of novel concepts on how to model state machines in the type system. In other words, I'd venture to say that if an implementation of the Double Rachet algorithm ever does something that doesn't match the diagrams, it is more likely it is the code that is wrong than vice-versa.
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