Re:A second look at "no code" tools (2019)
by Fire-Dragon-DoL on Monday February 15, 2021 @07:30AM
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I think this is overlooking how faster is to develop for command line interfaces, as well as to how widespread command line software is.
What are the numbers considered when making these assessments? With visual software, we got way more adoption, but this doesn't mean the amount of software necessary increased. I'm pretty sure the majority of the software out there is made of command line tools. The amount of software a developer uses is very large and entirely made of small command line tools, there are entire O. S. made purely for command line usage (any server distribution really).
Finally, there is another giant elephant being overlooked. Software is written in text because in the hands of a skilled professional, text can be VERY visual. I don't have to prove this, there is extensive amount of poetry written to confirm this.
Effectively a piece of software written by a skilled professional will greatly benefit every reader, and readers of software are way more than writers of software even in the software development world.
Your example about HTML and CSS is also a very special example. Effectively HTML and CSS are tools to build UIs, not "generic software". There is a lot of software out there that doesn't involves humans at all. I mean, cron is on the majority of the servers out there, it has no UI.
What are the numbers considered when making these assessments? With visual software, we got way more adoption, but this doesn't mean the amount of software necessary increased. I'm pretty sure the majority of the software out there is made of command line tools. The amount of software a developer uses is very large and entirely made of small command line tools, there are entire O. S. made purely for command line usage (any server distribution really).
Finally, there is another giant elephant being overlooked. Software is written in text because in the hands of a skilled professional, text can be VERY visual. I don't have to prove this, there is extensive amount of poetry written to confirm this. Effectively a piece of software written by a skilled professional will greatly benefit every reader, and readers of software are way more than writers of software even in the software development world.
Your example about HTML and CSS is also a very special example. Effectively HTML and CSS are tools to build UIs, not "generic software". There is a lot of software out there that doesn't involves humans at all. I mean, cron is on the majority of the servers out there, it has no UI.