No-code in manufacturing: automation without programming

Re:No-code in manufacturing: automation without programming by lifeisstillgood on Thursday October 07, 2021 @01:50PM (#28789799)

I often claim software is a new form of literacy. And I see no-code as the equivalent of cutting up all the frames from marvel comics and tippexing out the speech bubbles, then handing them to some illiterate and saying "hey, you can write your own story now !"

It's not how we (as a society) need to handle this.

Edit: i.e. that is not empowering the illiterate.

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Re:No-code in manufacturing: automation without programming by WFHRenaissance on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:18PM (#28790164)

I think the issue with your analogy is that no-code programming is more like cutting up all of the idioms and narrative elements (in abstract) from Marvel comics and offering them to an illiterate and saying "Tell me a story using these parts". Ultimately, storytelling is composed of tropes. Every once in a while a breakthrough is made in aesthetic/narrative style, but that's just a new feature for a no-code platform. Not everyone needs to be writing bleeding edge or avant-garde software – a lot of people just need simple and reliable internal tools.

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Re:No-code in manufacturing: automation without programming by drewcoo on Thursday October 07, 2021 @03:09PM (#28790803)

Sorta like Dinosaur Comics with user-generated content? I like it!

https://www.qwantz.com

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