The things I've seen built on COBOL, and Visual Basic are awe inspiring. The world is built on them - and for a reason: if you don't need a coder there's a who

The things I've seen built on COBOL, and Visual Basic are awe inspiring. The world is built on them - and for a reason: if you don't need a coder there's a whole new definition of "fail fast" that comes into play. And maybe eventually some tiny percent of these these little things, succeeds beyond your wildest dreams, and is now critical your business, and you have to drop 10k hours slowly rebuilding it using professionals. That's what success looks like. It's also what not paying for 100 failed software projects looks like.