DEV Community

Discussion on: Should You Learn To No-Code?

Collapse
 
ochsec profile image
Chris Ochsenreither • Edited

" While a lot of programmers enjoy the act of coding, there is going to be no dispute that companies in the next few years will be transitioning to using no-code tools to build their platforms on."

Really? No one disputes that?

Did you ever hear of Winforms? It's going to take the world by storm - in 2002!
No, what'll happen is that non-software businesses will build CRUD apps with generic components with these tools to save money and software companies and software dev shops will continue to write code. Without the ability to code, you are sandboxed into the features that the no-code solution provides. There are always business needs outside of those features.

Collapse
 
adam_cyclones profile image
Adam Crockett 🌀

Hey Chris, Did you ever hear of Minidisks? 🤣

But seriously, I can think of a visual code solution that is tremendously successful and yet still needs a plug-in API with scripting. That's the type of overhead a "no code" solution creates, if anything, then you need a sub par embedded code editor to write all that code but not code.