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Where should visual programming go?


Visual programming and textual code should co-exist next to each other, not replace one another

In it, Sebastian argues that we shouldn’t try to replace all code with visual programming but instead only add graphics where it makes sense: One simple trick would solve the problem of discovery: what if we could put images into our text files? These scenes are stored in their own files, have specialized editors that know how to edit them, and have no code representation.

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