The problem with most visual programming is that most platforms avoid making any tradeoffs.
A good visual programming tool should abstract away complexity but it can only achieve that by reducing flexibility.
If you're going to give people a visual tool that is as complex as code itself, people might as well learn to code.
It helps to focus on a set of use cases and abstract away from common, complicated, error-prone, critical functionality such as authentication, access control, filtering, schema definition and validation. All this stuff can be greatly simplified with a restrictive UI which simultaneously does the job and prevents people from shooting themselves in the foot.
You need to weed out unnecessary complexity; give people exactly the right amount of rope to achieve a certain set of possible goals, but not enough rope for them to hang themselves.
I've chosen to focus on CRUD apps. The goal is to push CRUD to its absolute maximum with auth, access control and real time data sync.
So far it's at a point that you can build complex apps using only HTML tags. Next phase would be to support generating and editing the HTML tags via a friendly drag and drop UI.
Still, it's for building front ends. It cannot and will never aim to be used to build stuff like data processing pipelines or for analytics. You'll need to run it alongside other services to get that functionality.
A good visual programming tool should abstract away complexity but it can only achieve that by reducing flexibility.
If you're going to give people a visual tool that is as complex as code itself, people might as well learn to code.
It helps to focus on a set of use cases and abstract away from common, complicated, error-prone, critical functionality such as authentication, access control, filtering, schema definition and validation. All this stuff can be greatly simplified with a restrictive UI which simultaneously does the job and prevents people from shooting themselves in the foot.
You need to weed out unnecessary complexity; give people exactly the right amount of rope to achieve a certain set of possible goals, but not enough rope for them to hang themselves.
I've been working towards this with https://saasufy.com/
I've chosen to focus on CRUD apps. The goal is to push CRUD to its absolute maximum with auth, access control and real time data sync.
So far it's at a point that you can build complex apps using only HTML tags. Next phase would be to support generating and editing the HTML tags via a friendly drag and drop UI.
Still, it's for building front ends. It cannot and will never aim to be used to build stuff like data processing pipelines or for analytics. You'll need to run it alongside other services to get that functionality.