As usual, economics and 'convenience' win over quality and performance.
More "No Code" will also inevitably further reduce the quality of new developers (something I've seen happening over years of interviewing candidates). The whole thing is a vicious circle - convenience and shortcuts win, people get lazy, lazy becomes the norm, quality goes down, new developers go straight to the lazy stuff (because it's cool, and that's where the $$$ are).
Sure, hardware gets better and we can use it as a crutch to support all these layers of laziness... but eventually - in the extreme case - the lower layers become too 'difficult' for everyone except the ancient system priests, and the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
I hope this makes sense... admittedly it reads a little like an unedited stream of consciousness. Hopefully someone is on my wavelength though
One of the few downsides of living in a capitalist system, it's all about the profits.
But I don't know if No Code / Low Code will reduce the quality of developers.
For example, driving the Ford Model T was insanely difficult compared to driving modern vehicles (even with stick).
But are all current drivers worse because of that?
Making a car that is easier to drive allowed drivers to focus on more essential things.
Going back to No Code / Low Code, I feel we wouldn't have reached this point so fast if Software Development didn't overcomplicate itself in the last 10 years, this person on Reddit said it well:
Yeah - totally agree with you about the last 10 years. I've watched it unfold - aghast.
It does feel like a lot of the recent interest in "no code" is somewhat of a reaction to this problem, rather than any kind of attempt at a solution - as some of these no-code platforms are probably built upon the very foundations and complications they purport to want to fix - adding yet another layer of complexity - sweeping the problem under the carpet rather than addressing it head on
As usual, economics and 'convenience' win over quality and performance.
More "No Code" will also inevitably further reduce the quality of new developers (something I've seen happening over years of interviewing candidates). The whole thing is a vicious circle - convenience and shortcuts win, people get lazy, lazy becomes the norm, quality goes down, new developers go straight to the lazy stuff (because it's cool, and that's where the $$$ are).
Sure, hardware gets better and we can use it as a crutch to support all these layers of laziness... but eventually - in the extreme case - the lower layers become too 'difficult' for everyone except the ancient system priests, and the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
I hope this makes sense... admittedly it reads a little like an unedited stream of consciousness. Hopefully someone is on my wavelength though
One of the few downsides of living in a capitalist system, it's all about the profits.
But I don't know if No Code / Low Code will reduce the quality of developers.
For example, driving the Ford Model T was insanely difficult compared to driving modern vehicles (even with stick).
But are all current drivers worse because of that?
Making a car that is easier to drive allowed drivers to focus on more essential things.
Going back to No Code / Low Code, I feel we wouldn't have reached this point so fast if Software Development didn't overcomplicate itself in the last 10 years, this person on Reddit said it well:
Yeah - totally agree with you about the last 10 years. I've watched it unfold - aghast.
It does feel like a lot of the recent interest in "no code" is somewhat of a reaction to this problem, rather than any kind of attempt at a solution - as some of these no-code platforms are probably built upon the very foundations and complications they purport to want to fix - adding yet another layer of complexity - sweeping the problem under the carpet rather than addressing it head on
I agree with your point of view.
If modern web development was as simple as jQuery, maybe the Low Code / No Code alternatives for creating web apps wouldn't have been so popular.