Since "no code" can be so confusing, does anyone have any ideas for what to call the category of creating software visually/declaratively without needing a text editor? Other terms that have baggage and are not ideal imo: wysiwygs, app builders, website builders...
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Replying to @callmevlad @jackyalcine
I sorta like "no code" because you can pair it with "low code" and "pro code" to make a spectrum of builders, divided by how much code they get into. But maybe it's still too much focus on CODE rather than what they're trying to do.
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I've been thinking about Webflow's positioning a lot. It's the classic "bicycle for the mind": you could do all of this with code, but it's a lot faster this way, so why bother? But any formulation around the word "code" centers code in a way that's confusing or unhelpful.
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I think "development by direct manipulation" in a talk I saw Vlad give is a lot closer to the magic. Like a 3D editor lets you draw a model that is stored as code, Webflow lets you draw a website that becomes code, but the code isn't the interesting part, the tool is.
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WYSIWYG is the term for this but associated with bad underlying code. So: another term, ideally not so nerdy. A "visual web editor"?
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"Automated web development"? "Web development accelerator"? "Like that exo-skeleton Riley wears in Alien, except for building websites instead of lifting heavy things"?
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I'm still working on it.
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Having spent the past six months wrangling PostGIS databases while other team members did Django Rest Framework APIs and React front-ends, I'd love a tool that any member of our team could develop an end-to-end web app with.
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Admittedly our database was huge - we had to pre-compute reports rather than force Django or a browser to do serious joins or quantile calculations. But any serious data-driven application needs horsepower in three components of the stack, usually with three different languages.
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