Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future of tech to look like?

Re:Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future o... by swman on Monday June 21, 2021 @08:07PM (#27586234)

> Low/no code drag-and-drop style programming tools would take away many dev jobs

this is still something some of us think about today

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Re:Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future o... by bradleyjg on Monday June 21, 2021 @08:35PM (#27586504)

We keep on chasing and chasing. I think the closest we’ve come so far is excel and most in programming scorn it instead of revering it.

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Re:Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future o... by atlantageek on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @08:36AM (#27590869)

IKR. Excel and the other spreadsheet variants are the gateway drug to software development. There is no other tool that has such a low entry to barrier and is so enticing to scale up into a ridiculously complex product. It eventually does get to a point that when the original user/developer is ready to change their job someone says 'OK can we turn this into a webapp or something... this is nuts. Lets hire someone from guru.com to do this.'

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Re:Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future o... by jfk13 on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @09:08AM (#27591102)

> Excel and the other spreadsheet variants are the gateway drug to software development

Ah, HyperCard ... RIP.

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