On: The No-Code Generation is arriving

[oxfordmale]

The No Code generation has been arriving and departing in the last 4 decades. No Code is code you don't control and that often turns out to be the main bottleneck.

[Yuioup → oxfordmale]

I'm seeing statements like "There are not enough programmers in the world to service the demand for applications" being pushed hard.

[draugadrotten → Yuioup]

And they are false. "There are not enough programmers in the world that are willing to work for free" might be closer to the truth.

I know unemployed programmers so it's no shortage of supply.

[greenonions → draugadrotten]

"The stakeholders who desire applications are not willing to buy it at it's current price; either because they know that the application is not valuable or do not know the application is valuable."

[patentatt → greenonions]

Kind of, but the real way I see it is: “there is a whole wide swath of problems that would benefit from simple programming/automation, but they aren’t ROI positive to pay a professional programmer to do.” So the no/low code stuff can change that and lower the barrier to introduce automation and programmability to a big tranche of problem areas that aren’t served by ‘traditional’ development. I don’t see that as a bad thing.

[benhurmarcel → greenonions]

Or because the application hacked together in Excel for "free" already does the job. Ugly, but it works for cheap.

[Ma8ee → draugadrotten]

There’s plenty of people who knows how to program. There are not as many who know how to program and have the patience, inclination, and social skills to figure out what the programs actually need to do.

[itsoktocry → Yuioup]

>"There are not enough programmers in the world to service the demand for applications"

Sounds like we will all soon be writing custom code for NoCode products, which is basically where we are anyway.