> In the early 2000s, there was a movement to produce tools and training that would let domain experts produce their own tools – rather than delivering "require

> In the early 2000s, there was a movement to produce tools and training that would let domain experts produce their own tools – rather than delivering "requirements" to a programmer, a bookstore clerk or nurse or librarian could just make their own tools using Visual Basic. This is something interesting that I hadn't noticed. "RAD" tools like VB that I remember from when I was a teenager seem to have ceased to exist - replaced with either complex IDEs and languages that almost require a CS degree or with dumbed-down "glue some stuff together" automation like IFTTT/Shortcuts. The last bastion of application development for "normies" is probably Excel?