A good few code visualization projects seem wrapped up/sidetracked in unraveling the complexities of their algol-like host langauges. Concatenative and rewrite systems, on the other hand, are often so simple, I have a hard time even imagining what a useful visualization would be. VM debugger can be too opaque/indirect, intermediate term rewrites are cool, but maybe too transparent to provide heuristic perceptual data. Less of a one-is-better argument, and more of a 'I wonder what I'm looking for'. Like, I wonder how much of the visual PL/structure editor space is devoted to trying to derive legibility from languages that have some degree of counterintuition baked in.
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@inscript I don't have much insight about this, but I've recently spent some time trying to see what mindspace different languages afforded me, and while not necessarily being visual, languages without stackframes have a very spacial aspect that lends itself well to visual programming.
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