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I'm sure there is a place for no-code tools, but LabView left a very sour taste in my mouth after seeing how much it was abused to do things it was pretty much

• AnimalMuppet 4y ago
  The worst tool imaginable, that you have and know how to use, beats many more suitable tools that you don't have and/or don't know how to use. I don't like no-code tools. I think they fall into the Evil Wizards category. (Roughly, they trap you into a dungeon that you can't escape or extend.) But they do let people who are not us do things that they could not have done without the tool (or, if they could have, they would have needed us to do it for them). That's powerful. "They're a bad idea for professional programmers" is very different from "they're a bad idea for everyone". The only gotcha is, the non-programmers need to learn when to stop trying to extend what they've built with the tool, and get the mess re-written by people that can code. That sounds elitist. (It even sounds rather elitist to me!) But it's really no different than knowing when to take your kid to the ER instead of trying to fix them with your first-aid kit. Some things you can do as an amateur, and that's good. It's empowering! But you need to know when you need more than an amateur.