The only reason I heard Flash described as a piece of shit back in the day was because of the security nightmare surrounding it. Apart from that it was kind of

The only reason I heard Flash described as a piece of shit back in the day was because of the security nightmare surrounding it. Apart from that it was kind of cool because it was about the only way you could have bells and whistles on a website. In the heyday of Flash, the internet itself was an entirely shitty experience performance-wise. Nobody had any expectations. My connection was so slow that I could watch images load one line at a time. Then we had a few good years of fast computers and decent connections before code bloat sucked the air out of it again. It's hard to generalise but where I have seen no-code succeed is with non-tech teams automating away some of their monkey work without having to come up with a budget for a developer or buy in from management. In that situation nobody cares if the app takes 5s to run when it could take 1s.