Will low and no code tools ever truly disrupt tech development?

Re:Will low and no code tools ever truly disrupt tech develo... by schwartzworld on Thursday August 11, 2022 @04:16PM (#32431178)

> The lowest hanging fruit for a low-code solution would be in the Front-End space since you're dealing with a visual medium anyway, and because Front-End work isn't "hard" as much as it's super tedious.

I think the take that frontend isn't hard is extremely outdated. Responsiveness and a11y are nuanced problems with huge surface areas. As designs get more complex, keeping all these things in check requires tooling that needs to be learned. People on HN constantly bemoan the complexity of frontend development and how hard it has become. There's a reason drag and drop isn't the default way of creating a web page, despite tools for this being around for 30 years.

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Re:Will low and no code tools ever truly disrupt tech develo... by habeyer on Thursday August 11, 2022 @07:50PM (#32433236)

I misspoke.

It's not Front-End dev as a whole, just the "pushing-pixels" stuff.

There's a ton of difficult FE work (esp. state). It's just that when it comes to a lot of the "basic" styling and responsiveness there's a lot of tedious work that should be automate-able (just like any framework or library, the goal is to reduce unnecessary work, not to suggest that the work is trivial).

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