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If you appreciate when keyboard interaction gets added to a GUI, then you might think of a graphical language as the opposite, as it essentially removes keyboard interaction from what is normally a text-based system.

Not based on an official Blockly implementation. But you can add keyboard navigation to Blockly(-like) scripting reasonably easily:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITWSL5lTLig

The video above shows keyboard, but the main motivation for the key-based navigation was actually gamepad.

Snap does have a limited keyboard mode (shift click), but it's not really as good as "real" IDE.

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