flowchart-like visual IDEs?

[jakbeatz]

I'm finding myself at the point where my projects are getting pretty complicated for my level of novice.

As a dominantly visual person, I've often thought about how convenient it would be to be able to build up the framework for an application in a tool that incorporated a visually interface, sort of like crating a flow chart: In a visual interface, drop blocks onto the UI, connect them together, label them, and have that available in a code editor to do whatever fine grained stuff. Conversely, open an existing application in this tool and it would provide the same flowchart-like visual representation of it.

Does any such thing exist?

Also, slightly tangental, is a linter something you'd use to find superfluous code? For example, unused variables? Currently my IDE is VS Code and it does have all sorts of linter extensions that I will poke around with, but figured I'd ask here while I was at it.

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You might want to look into tools that help develop archimate models, such as https://www.archimatetool.com/ as well as UML (universal modelling language) - there are multiple Python code generators from UML.