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The dream of "Legos for code" has been around practically as long as code itself. It's such a ubiquitous meme that back in the Nineties Douglas Coupland wrote a
by vannevar 4y ago
The dream of "Legos for code" has been around practically as long as code itself. It's such a ubiquitous meme that back in the Nineties Douglas Coupland wrote a popular novel about it, Microserfs (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2748 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2748). History is littered with the carcasses of startups that took up the challenge. That same siren song has now called up a new generation of "no code" platforms. Time will tell if any succeed.
- breadchris 4y agoIt is interesting to see everyone’s attempt at trying to make this happen. And of course there’s no silver bullet and everyone is going to have their own opinions on how to do this but when I have seen tools like GRPC work for a company’s like Google and Uber it seems to me that this is the right abstraction, at least when it comes to services communicating with each other. I like code that can stay around for a while, and in its time, Java was (and arguably still is) a great abstraction that lets someone plug things together. I want to give people that satisfying “snap” when things go together nicely and for what they build to stay around.