I think that Visual Programming could be more suitable for building modern applications that may need to make web services to monitor physical devices (for example) or to gather and analyze values coming from sensors,etc... That's exactly what has driven the design or our new Visual Programming language : the need of being able to rapidly and easily build applications that connect and use technologies that were not made for working together (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRWIlDXeLdk and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JccLWZ6nPlY). (Full disclosure, CEO of Hackeet)