@david_chisnall I do wonder how the output of such a tool should look like these days, though. That was one of the major issues of a lot of the prior art, sometimes intentional (HyperCard), sometimes more by accident (Tcl/Tk).

Regular "HIG" GUIs had the advantage that you could follow a lot of patterns, so you just needed to overcome not being a "proper" programmer, not also not being a designer.

These days, those kind of UIs are basically retrocomputing, and you either get some flashy web page or something on the desktop that is increasingly Blender-ized.

Hard to find a niche for end-user programmers there, even if the purely technical issues are resolved.

@mhd
From my experience it’s about providing the right mix between:

1. enough restrictions so that it gets hard to shout yourself in the foot
2. enough freedom so that you can create an UX that does what it needs to do and does not restrict usability

That’s what I like about Lotus Notes. It restricted me to forms and views and gave enough freedom within those to create something that worked well.

@david_chisnall