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Re:Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writ... by coliveira on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @05:40PM (#23634192)
I agree that coding is the easy part. But exactly because of that it shouldn't get into the way. I really think that is useful to have tools to generate simple apps without coding. Who wants to create the thousandth CRUD app? It is nice to have a tool capable of create apps from simple logic and reserve programming for when it's needed.
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Re:Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writ... by nightski on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @05:47PM (#23634254)
At the end of the day you have to translate requirements into software. Whether that is through a GUI or textual. Textual just happens to be an extremely effective method to do so.

Every application in existence is a CRUD app. Software is just data processing after all, reading and writing bits.

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Re:Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writ... by coliveira on Thursday June 25, 2020 @10:42AM (#23641294)
I think it is extremely egotistical to think that your way is the only way to do things. If some people are not good enough with text files, then by all means we should provide tools so they can help create simple apps without traditional programming skills.
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