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> Eventually, the UI got to the point where it felt like using Duplos or something. It didn't have to be this way! There are great low-to-no-code tools that hav
by sweetheart 6y ago
> Eventually, the UI got to the point where it felt like using Duplos or something. It didn't have
to be this way! There are great low-to-no-code tools that have much more usable interfaces, like Scratch.
I had no idea what Duplos was so I had to Google it, but I can't imagine that for a complete non-programmer, the Scratch UI would be more clear than littler sticking giant building blocks together without issue. It sounds like the author simply fell out
of the target market for IFTTT, rather than IFTTT becoming _worse_.
FWIW, that Scratch UI screenshot was so hard to mentally parse. I would not expect a non-programmer to look at that and feel more secure in their understanding of the product at all.
- lotyrin 6y agoYeah. Scratch is not a no-code tool, it's a no-syntax tool. Every other skill required to understand code is still required. It makes it impossible to put a semicolon in the wrong place or understand that there's wrong and right places to put them, but you still have to parse code and imagine what it'll do before it does it, etc.
- raimondious 6y agoFWIW the screenshot is of Blockly, not Scratch.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoAren't they all essentially the same thing, UI-wise?