# Visuelm, a visual programming editor for Elm

**URL:** https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/visuelm-a-visual-programming-editor-for-elm/10597
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**Created:** [April 2, 2026, 10:44am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/visuelm-a-visual-programming-editor-for-elm/10597 "2026-04-02T10:44:03Z")
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#### Post date: [April 2, 2026, 5:47pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/visuelm-a-visual-programming-editor-for-elm/10597/2 "2026-04-02T17:47:31Z")

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Awesome! I asked exactly for something like this 2 years ago 😄:

> [@Did anyone try to build a "Visual Elm"?](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/did-anyone-try-to-build-a-visual-elm/9566):
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> Hi, has anyone already tried to build a “Visual Elm” based on the concept of node graphs (aka flowcharts)? A short search didn’t bring up anything useful.\* I’m basically thinking of something like [Rete Studio - Code generation tool powered by Rete.js](https://studio.retejs.org/playground) for Elm. From my experience this usually doesn’t work very well, because most programming language are too complex to model them visually (especially JavaScript). However, with Elm I think it might actually be usable! Functional (data in, data o…

But this is an interesting comment:

> But now, with LLMs, I think visual programming is clearly a bad idea.

I have the same suspicion, but if there is still a textual representation of the code, then the LLM can write the textual code and the developer can use the visual representation to understand / validate the code. This could be better than textual code I assume?

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