Designing an interface layout by drag and drop has been around since basically the beginning of GUIs. It's not "no-code", it's just defining the interface in a standard way as data.

People have tried from time to time to make a programming environment to appeal to, that is graspable by, people who are allergic to entering code in a text editor. Sometimes it looks sort of like "programming" by drawing a flow chart.

And it generally, as far as I know, either fails to be easy enough for most people, or makes anything complex horribly cumbersome.

As I said, Power Automate is a (horrible) example.

"a visual programming language (VPL) is any programming language that lets users create programs by manipulating program elements graphically rather than by specifying them textually."

"The Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual J# etc. languages of the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE are not visual programming languages: the representation of algorithms etc. is textual even though the IDE embellishes the editing and debugging activities with a rich user interface."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_programming_language

So the original comment sounded perfectly reasonable to me, except it sounded like a critique of something other than VB.

I remember this from the 90s, although I never used it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prograph

> Designing an interface layout by drag and drop has been around since basically the beginning of GUIs. It's not "no-code", it's just defining the interface in a standard way as data.

The GGP didn't call VB "no-code". That was referring to Salesforce.

Yes, VB from the 90s. I moved to web development and haven’t looked at it again since - they may have improved it since.