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There are lots of initiatives for "no code", Microsoft's power suite, Alteryx, Office's power pivot, etc. I love the idea that non technical users could do more
by cm2187 4y ago
There are lots of initiatives for "no code", Microsoft's power suite, Alteryx, Office's power pivot, etc. I love the idea that non technical users could do more and create active programs.
But my experience is that the population who will not learn code (and I am not talking about learning c++, more like SQL and python/VBA) is also the population who will not want to learn a complex software with its internal logic and create complex workflows.
Whereas the population who would be happy to do so, is also the population who would pick up a scripting language easily.
So in the end the user base for those tools is pretty narrow.
- OkayPhysicist 4y agoThey have a small user base, but a much larger customer base. The non-technical people who recognize the utility of programming but can't be assed think that their underlings will be all over those "no"-code solutions.
- danschuller 4y agoFor me, I think there's an element of "discoverability" that most programming languages doesn't have. With a visual scripting language you can literally see the nodes you can use and drag them on a canvas with a reasonable chance of making something happen. Programming languages, even if you start up with some kind repl you cannot naturally guess the primitives, you are forced to read a tutorial or manual, that's quite a lot friction to onboard someone. (Same kind of things applies to a GUI vs a shell)