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"No code" is always only "less code": look at the complexity of Excel spreadsheets by non-coders. But it is a "singularity event of sensible defaults" that allo
by lubujackson 7y ago
"No code" is always only "less code": look at the complexity of Excel spreadsheets by non-coders. But it is a "singularity event of sensible defaults" that allows useful things to be built before the first whiff of code.
What is exciting is that simple web/apps are getting to that same place that spreadsheets were at and where blogging was at.
People already have a clear idea of what they need most of the time: "fill out this form, send it in a email, put in a spreadsheet, load it on this page with an image", etc. Provide sensible defaults and let the CRUD apps flow.
- meredydd 7y agoExcel is sui generis - it is the end-user-programming platform that lived. But even Excel formulas are a textual programming language, and the really hairy Excel spreadsheets spill over into VBA (a "real language" for these purposes, and one whose ergonomics still blow the web out of the water). It is tempting (albeit a bit snobbish) to think that "CRUD apps", as a category, have so little logic that you can describe a useful working version without code. I just don't think it's true - they are always shot through with squirrelly business logic. You can carve off products like form builders (eg Google forms/Airtable/etc), but anything you'd describe as a "CRUD app" contains an amount of logic that's just painful to describe without code. (And the form builders know it, which is why they don't support those use cases!)