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Simple, job security. It would put lot of FrontEnd Coders out of work - not all, but many of them. So it is in everyone's best interest to keep coders coding, d
by redindian75 10y ago
Simple, job security. It would put lot of FrontEnd Coders out of work - not all, but many of them. So it is in everyone's best interest to keep coders coding, designers designing and have as little overlap as possible. Silos keeps the wheels turning.
So there has been a collective badmouthing about how WYSIWYG tools create a codular mess, and then they proceed to create similar codular mess by hand (pull this library, glue, pull that library, glue..etc). After Bootstrap, webdesign is dead. Every single website look the same. If not literally, then same blocks re-arranged (Hero Image, Sticky Nav, Round Profile Pictures, Contact Map, Footer).
I remember Dreamweaver in late 90s, it democratized webdesign, as a design student, I was able to pretty much draw and create as simple or complex I want. In 1998 Dreamweaver promoted "Roundtrip HTML" to quell the backlash - but dev sentiment killed a lot of momentum it had (They still badmouth it). Semantic Markup, Tables... unmaintainable, and then proceed to have the same convoluted polluted code. Was it perfect? NO... but it was not FrontPage or Word>HTML. It is 2017, and with the technologies available today, there should be multiple tools to cater to UX tooling.
For most designers, learning to code kills the spark of creativity, and puts you in a templatized mindset (Hero Image, Logo on top left etc).
- timthelion 10y agoDo you realize, that guis, and gui designers have been around since before the internet? Do you realize that smart programmers working on their own dime don't use gui designers, not out of desire for job security, but for real technical reasons? Do you think that Richard Stallman and the GNU freaks don't use GUI designers out of desire for job security? That's an insane notion, given that many free software developers don't have traditional jobs by choice.
- strickjb9 10y agoI'm not sure if this is a troll post. The "un"adoption of GUI frontend tools has nothing to do with job security. At best, it is a poor conspiracy theory. There are great answers in these comments that provide good insight. This comment is not one of them.