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Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" (www.windowscentral.com)

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's the same claim when tools like Integromat, WayScript, PureData, vvvv and other VPLs (Visual Programming Languages) started to get some hype. I once worked for a company that strongly believed they'd "retire the need for coding", and my ex-boss was so confident and happy about that... Although VPLs were a practical thing, time is the ruler of truth, and for every dev-related job vacancy I see, they ask some programming language, the written ones (JS, PHP, Python, Ruby, Lua, and so on).

Because if you look closely, deep inside, voila, there's code in anything that is claimed to be no-code! Wow, could anyone imagine that? 🤯 /sarcasm

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I made this meme a while back and I think it's relevant

[+] [email protected] -11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Looking at your examples, and I have to object at putting scratch in there.

My kids use it in clubs, and it's great for getting algorithmic basics down before the keyboard proficiency is there for real coding.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

that's just how the code is rendered. There's still all the usual constructs

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

It's still code. What makes scratch special is that it structurally rules out syntax errors while still looking quite like ordinary code. Node editors -- I have a love and hate relationship with them. When you're in e.g. Blender throwing together a shader it's very very nice to have easy visualisation of literally everything, but then you know you want to compute abs(a) + sin(b) + c^2 and yep that's five nodes right there because apparently even the possibility to type in a formula is too confusing for artists. Never mind that Blender allows you to input formulas (without variables though) into any field that accepts a number.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

https://youtu.be/BP-KFAWYjxw?si=V5YUB22gJ1PWaou7