Is There a Reaction to Visual Programming?

Hackerde's folk wisdom on visual programming is a large scale analysis of every single time something visual programming related has come up on hackernews. The article starts with the really common and fairly shallow reactions, and then goes into some much more nuanced and interesting discussion. i think there'rse some very legitimate critiques that should be acknowledged, that maybe the past generation of programmers was sort of subjected to a really awful version of visual programming. But it would be really sad to let that frustration ruin what visual programming could be in a much better sign format or just done in very different ways.