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While I agree with the author, it's only true when speaking of software that requires custom logic. For instance, "no-code" website creation offering has done
by Eikon 7y ago
While I agree with the author, it's only true when speaking of software that requires custom logic.
For instance, "no-code" website creation offering has done wonders in replacing the "install wordpress on a very crappy cheap host and let it rot with vulnerable plugins" paradigm.
- Piskvorrr 7y agoIs that very different from the websites of the 90s? I distinctly remember creating a somewhat-dynamic site in FrontPage, then rendering it into static HTML and FTPing it to the webserver. Perhaps this was an impedance mismatch: "web requires coding" - it mostly doesn't, most people would be okay with a better HTML editor, and providing that via WP was a historical quirk.
- cm2012 7y agoThe no code websites are so much better now. Shopify powers a ton of big eCommerce now, for instance.
- rchaud 7y agoThose would be examples of static sites, which are "read only" to most users. Wix, Squarespace etc can handle form submissions and online payments of course. And with third party solutions like Intercom and Optimizely, things like customer support chat and A/B testing can be done with pretty much no code.
- ptx 7y agoWeb hosting companies in the old days often provided a collection of CGI scripts that users could invoke from their HTML pages, things like counters, e-mail form handlers, guestbooks and other popular functionality.