Do you think they can be powerful enough to build production-grade applications some day or are they going to stay as educational tools or build into specific applications forever?

  • @Hexorg@beehaw.orgM
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    11 year ago

    It’s not that they aren’t powerful enough - they are Turing complete and so can compute anything computable. But text-based programming tools have many many many many helper tools that we’ve developed over decades. Text-based programming is also more information-dense on the screen so it’s easier to keep references up to different parts of the code. Finally - it’s just a matter of adaptation - the reason keys on your keyboard are in layout they are is because 100+ year old typewriters used to get stuck more often with different layouts. And since text-based programming is an industry standard - I doubt it’ll change anytime soon.