Re:Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writ...
by wwweston on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @10:49PM
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You're both on to something.
Like the parent says, there are absolutely going to be people who will be defeated by Honeycode (or any other solution no matter how easy) because they simply can't or don't develop a model of the domain that an app can serve as an interaction point for.
As you say, there are absolutely going to be people who can do that, with Honeycode or something else, but are put off by the specific arcana of some language/dev environment. Just like there are people who don't think of themselves as developers but do an awful lot of spreadsheet work.
Like the parent says, there are absolutely going to be people who will be defeated by Honeycode (or any other solution no matter how easy) because they simply can't or don't develop a model of the domain that an app can serve as an interaction point for.
As you say, there are absolutely going to be people who can do that, with Honeycode or something else, but are put off by the specific arcana of some language/dev environment. Just like there are people who don't think of themselves as developers but do an awful lot of spreadsheet work.