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No-code will never be the future of programming, because the phrase doesn't actually make any sense. "No-text-code" I guess is more what they were going for. T
by wallfacer120 5y ago
No-code will never be the future of programming, because the phrase doesn't actually make any sense.
"No-text-code" I guess is more what they were going for. This is still not the future of programming because the fastest most fluent way for human beings to communicate ideas precisely is through words. Text-based code is not, and will never be, an anachronism, pictorial or graphical representation will never replace language in computers for the same reason that it doesn't outside of computers.
Devops interfaces will get better, GitHub co-pilot will continue to evolve, but you can't replace, or even touch really, characters and regular expressions as the best way to give computers instructions that they haven't gotten before.
- exdsq 5y agoYou might find it interesting to know a lot of really important code is not written by text but using tools like Simulink and other graphical programming systems. This is used, for example, to program the critical parts of NASA spacecraft. It's a lot easier to reason around images and, from what I understand, makes it easier to formally prove the underlying software too.
- wallfacer120 5y agoCan you code anything in Simulink other than simulations?
- ako 5y agoThere are many areas where preciseness is achieved through visual models. E.g., in architecture words will never replace the need for a visual representation of the building to be constructed. Some for 3d printing.
- wallfacer120 5y agoIn architecture, you don't draw the fact that the building will be X feet high, you draw pictorial representation of the building, and communicate the precise values with symbolic representation, because precise values have to be communicated with symbolic representation.