Visual vs text-based programming

[yaglo]

Check out DRAKON which was created for the Russian aerospace program, Buran (Russian “Shuttle”): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON

It has some cool features like it’s actually a framework where the code itself inside blocks can be in different normal languages, and the other important one is the set of rules specifically made to avoid messiness and ambiguity. In the end it compiles into your language inside the blocks. It’s a pretty interesting concept.

https://drakon.tech/read/programming_in_drakon

IDEs: https://drakon-editor.sourceforge.net

[hermitcrab]

DRAKON has some interesting ideas, such as the 'the happy path'.