alt Hacker NewsSikuliX was a UI automation tool from over a decade ago with an IDE that looked similar to their screenshots: https://avleonov.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/script_windo...
The language was just python and the IDE swapped out certain functions' arguments with the image and targets within the image that the code referred to. It also had a bunch of built-in functionality that let you manipulate the images and targets (the little red crosses in that screenshot) directly within the IDE instead of having to edit the underlying python code.
Looks like it has a successor called Oculix but I know nothing about that.
That's interesting. The most I had to do with SikuliX recently is its Robot Framework library, which is very neat way of both keeping the tech somewhat alive and making it easier to write the scripts.