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I always say: We ( Software developers ) are ALREADY working as high a level as possible, and invest aggressively when we can see we can cut out work that does

I always say: We ( Software developers ) are ALREADY working as high a level as possible, and invest aggressively when we can see we can cut out work that does not add business value. Compare local data centers, to AWS, to Kubernetes. The reason we use text is because it is information dense, portable, and easier to refactor. If drawing lines between shapes could have these same properties I am sure we would use them. We are not manufacturing work for ourselves, we are not hiding "the good stuff" in the back to force people to continue to pay us. If someone comes up with a perfect no-code solution it will be a multi billion-dollar revolution.

fossuser 6y ago
I agree - but I also think a perfect no-code solution will meet initial resistance. Just like binary to assembly did, and assembly to C did, and C to python did, etc. etc. People always resist the next level of abstraction. Either because they have to relearn something, or because there's some status associated with it being hard, or something else. It's just the nature of people for most to resist the new abstraction. This doesn't mean the perfect no-code solution is here, but just because people are dismissing it at first also isn't evidence that it's not. I think there's a lot more we could do with just visualizations around making the regular programming tooling way better: http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming
- darkcha0s 6y ago
  > This doesn't mean the perfect no-code solution is here, but just because people are dismissing it at first also isn't evidence that it's not. wut?