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I find it a bit weird that people are treating all this as a new thing. There have been no-code/visual programming tools for ages, especially in creative indust

I find it a bit weird that people are treating all this as a new thing. There have been no-code/visual programming tools for ages, especially in creative industries, e.g MAX & Reaktor (music DSP), Grasshopper (architecture), visual shader editors (most 3d software + game engines), visual game logic scripting (e.g. Unreal), etc... IMHO in these fields people care about getting results without all the software dev ceremony (which probably would add very little in this context). Obviously there's a ton of code machinery behind the scenes to make it work, but the same is true Javascript so that's neither here nor there.

AkelaA 6y ago
Also on the more VFX side, Houdini is super powerful in the way it puts it's visual scripting system/node graph front and center - while also making it really easy to embed "actual" code in the form of VEX (or Python) directly into the node graph.
Existenceblinks 6y ago
That. It makes me confused what no-code actually refers to. Sometimes, they call a software service "no-code" tool, well it is! > IMHO in these fields people care about getting results without all the software dev ceremony It's just called "software" you buy from someone, it helps you produce result, even produce another software. You don't want to code, buy a software. You don't want to code all the things, use library, framework, services that have API. You just want to hook a bunch of things together with business idea with zero code. Like hooks up all supply chain? You are not programming anyway you are a manager sort of thing. What's no-code?
- dhimes 6y ago
  Indeed. Is Wordpress "no code?" I think of it as legos.