Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code movement?

Re:Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code movement? by nicebill8 on Thursday November 11, 2021 @10:46AM (#29189179)

As a programmer, I've got a love for code but I have to accept that this is going to be the future for 90% of consumer-facing apps. The most common abstractions for the most common use-cases are already built and they're going to stay that way in my opinion. Once the "hard thinking" work is done building these abstractions, it's just a matter of connecting the dots to bring a product to market in <insert industry of choice>. While there's been no-code tools for a long time (Yahoo pipes being my earliest memory) there's no doubt they're improving every day.

I think in a few years (decades?), "developer" and "programmer" will mean something very different that they do today.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code movement? by dagw on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:09AM (#29189508)

I'm a programmer who does a lot of "no code" development and find those tools very productive for many of the problems I deal with. And I observe every day the people who know "programming" can use those tools far more effectively and come up with far better solutions and solve far harder problems than the people who cannot program, but just learned the tool.

The hard part of programming is computational thinking, and coming up with novel ways to string the right algorithms together to get the result the client needs, not typing vs dragging and dropping.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code movement? by Alex_Bell on Thursday November 11, 2021 @10:55AM (#29189310)

""" I think in a few years (decades?), "developer" and "programmer" will mean something very different that they do today.""" Hello. Your opinion is very interesting. And can you tell your version of this in more detail.

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