visual programming gets a bad rap

[Raoul Duke]

so, like, apple ios Shortcuts is a complete train wreck. 

object lesson in How Not To Do It.  

[Mike Austin]

Shortcuts like having the icon in the bottom bar, or removing the keeping the app, etc.? My pet peeve is the "..." at the top of iPadOS. I mistakenly press it and drag a window off to the side and have a hard time getting things back to normal. I don't want such multitasking on my iPad. Switching app is good enough.

[Raoul Duke]

oops, sorry to have been too terse: 

https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts/welcome/ios

[Mike Austin]

So the Shortcuts API is a mess? Any automation seems difficult to do, especially visually when it just comes back to "coding".

[Raoul Duke]

Pretty much all parts of it

Ui Ux D Api Creating Debugging Activating...