The issue with every one I’ve used is that it hides all the parameters away in context aware dialog boxes. Someone can’t come along and search for something, they need to click every element to via the dialog for that element to hunt for what they are looking for. I found every time the lead dev on a project changed, it was easier to re-write the whole thing than to try and figure out what the previous dev did. There was no such thing as a quick change for anyone other than the person who wrote it, and wrote it recently. Don’t touch the code for a year and it might as well get another re-write.
Yes, definitely this.
I have worked for a couple years on webMethods, where programs can ONLY be created by "drawing/composing" sort of flowcharts (see https://stackoverflow.com/q/24126185/54504 ) and the main problem was always trying to search for stuff inside the "Codebase".
And... another benefit of purely text-based code is that you can always run a diff-like utility and quickly zoom in on what has been changed.
