There’s other no code tools for things like mobile apps and CRUD.
Ultimately, I think there’s a lot of fear in these comment threads when no code is mentioned, and it’s misplaced.
A rising tide raises all boats. The more we can empower people to create things and solve problems for people, the better off we’ll all be.
You're joking, right? There are loads. They all suck to various degrees, which is why they are not popular.
> Ultimately, I think there’s a lot of fear
Mine is not fear as much as frustration for having to waste cycles on stuff that will not endure.
Take Power Automation (aka MSFlow): it's very powerful, but not because it's a graphical environment; it's because we have an environment with a lot of APIs available without having to do anything. If MS gave me a blank editor with all those APIs preloaded, I would be 1000000x more productive than I am fighting with this goddamn half-broken flowcharty thingie. Meanwhile, nobody else in my team (all non-devs) want to even consider look at it. They'd rather brush up on VBA if they really need to do complex stuff. And it's a shame, because the API wiring is amazing and when things eventually run it's magical.
Repl.it with all those APIs preloaded would be so much more popular than PA, which I fully expect will eventually die a slow death like Yahoo! Pipes and friends.
Uhm, a visual HTML designer, a field where we've not had any tool before (/sarcasm). But this is different! And you're totally not going to drop it once you've learnt the complexity and discovered all limitations. But hold on...
> to building all marketing sites
Ah yes. So the really complex stuff you'll still do with text. Got it.