Years ago I created a kind of programming framework thing that would be able to generate a visual graph of the application logic, I just found this screenshot and find it surprisingly readable.
I still like this kind of idea, although at the time I developed it in a total vacuum, and didn't really think about who might use it very much.
I would love having easier visualisation of the logic, and also allow non-coders to be able to answer questions like "When will notifications be sent?".
@nicksellen
Have you seen those visual programming kits that look a lot like that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_programming_language
@bhaugen back then I looked at various ones, for mine though the visual component was just an output of it, not what you would write code with.
I think when you write code visually you end up with https://blog.jki.net/hubfs/image-72.png (from LabVIEW).
I think the problem with most of these is they are totally seperated from the rest of the programming ecosystem. A bit all in or nothing. Hard to incrementally shift over, more paradigm shift. I let that dream go :)
@nicksellen
I know what you mean.
I used some visual GUI wiring things back in the day. They had a lot of green arrows connecting components. Eventually the screen turned into green slime.
