[sbensu]

[post author] I am familiar with those and have used a couple. There are similar examples in music, where visual programming dominates.

The implied audience of this post (not clear) is people writing business applications, web dev, etc. The examples are picked to reflect what could be useful to those developers. In other words, all the examples you mentioned are great but they are not how a "software engineer in a software company" does their job.

[jcelerier]

> In other words, all the examples you mentioned are great but they are not how a "software engineer in a software company" does their job.

creating blueprints or max/msp programs is definitely software engineering, it requires you to think about correct abstractions, computations, data flow and storage, etc.

also, there's currently 398 Rust jobs worldwide advertised on linkedin, vs. 1473 for "unreal blueprints"

[felixgallo]

game developers are definitely software engineers in software companies.

[munificent]

My experience is that the software engineers at game companies generally hate the visual programming tools. They want to work with code. It's the game designers who (sometimes) like using visual tools.

[Capricorn2481]

Of course, but you know what they're saying.

[barrystaes]

Developer here that started doing Analysis work for complex systems that require some thorough Bsuiness Modelling. Take a look at

- BPMN https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Process_Model_and_N...

- MDA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-driven_architecture

- MBSE https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-based_systems_engineer...

The tooling on these for Analysts I feel is not on par with tools for Developers. Often outdated and enterprise-only both in price and complexity of use.

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-driven_engineering#Too...

Any more insights welcome. At first I expected to find a complete “draw a model, generate api + sourcecode with validation functions” ecosystem of interoperable ecosystems. Apparently the market is not there yet.

[gopher_space]

I've been looking at using Godot for desktop apps, and seeing how the game world thinks about memory has given me a ton of ideas.