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> I still haven't seen any case for visual programming.

Aerodef, automotive, etc all use some form of visual programming. Controls engineers rarely write code, the systems are way too complex. E.g. I highly recommend watching this video from JPL to give you an understanding of where such tools excel. It's about simulating, iterating and then having scientists and engineers autogenerate the code they couldn't possibly write or test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s



I'm curious to see what you mean, but the link goes to "The Challenges of Getting to Mars" which doesn't show any example of visual programming by controls engineers?


I don't have access to JPL's models obviously, but here's a simple student project 'reverse engineering' the rovers in some of the same tools JPL uses. Note the control diagrams towards the end. These are the very same languages that are used to design & program in all but a handful of cars, are used by every plane manufacturer, to name a few applications

http://www.multibody.net/teaching/msms/students-projects-201...

E.g. cruise control

http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/amwiki/index.php/Cruise_c...


IMHO, if you can't test the hypothetical code equivalent, you can't trust whatever you clicked together using visual tools either.


Validation of autogenerated code is a well established field. E.g.

https://www.mathworks.com/products/transitioned/simverificat...




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