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You have perfectly illustrated the peer pressure I am talking about. By the way, I have been programming for 38 years on many platforms and have built my own d
by ilaksh 3y ago
You have perfectly illustrated the peer pressure I am talking about.
By the way, I have been programming for 38 years on many platforms and have built my own drag and drop UI editors and frameworks. I don't use these types of tools today because they are not popular and because of psychological factors as I said. But I still think that it would be more logical if programmers used them more often. And the times that I used them in the past they did increase my productivity.
The types of tools I am talking about often require editing code to customize functionality. They are not no-code tools.
- bluefirebrand 3y agoIf you hire an architect to design a house, then make some adjustments to the blueprint before it gets built, it doesn't make you an architect. In fact if you give your adjusted design to builders and have it made without consulting an architect first, you have a good chance of unknowingly violating some building code somewhere. Similarly if you use a code generating tool written by a software engineer and then adjust the code output, it doesn't make you a software engineer. Yes, software engineers can use those tools, but they're limiting their growth as engineers if they rely too heavily on those tools. If that's peer pressure, then I am unapologetic about it. I'm not hiring people who can't build their own code to work as software engineers.