no-code software can work just fine if the scope is small - and that's where you find the target audience. "back in the day" it was super easy to just slap tog

no-code software can work just fine if the scope is small - and that's where you find the target audience. "back in the day" it was super easy to just slap together a GUI software using Visual Studio, Delphi, or whatever you had at hand. Really simple editors to make the GUI, and with basic programming knowledge, you programmed the various functions. Easy as pie. If you wanted some software to run on a website, you could do the same with Java Applets - if you knew some java. Again, this is stuff that non-programmers could learn in a fairly short amount of time. Business analysts, professors, engineers, whatever. But what about these days? Well, even if you're smart - even if you know some basic programming - EVEN if you have the will, webdev is a fucking nightmare if you want something that's not static or very basic. The hoops you have to jump through, just to get your idea ported to a website. These people are not going to write large applications or services that needs to be fast, scale big, be fully tested, etc. They mostly need some quick and dirty apps that can solve things, and without a too steep learning curve.