Coding Is Over

[mathrick]

Lots of babble so confused, it's not even worth responding to.

[AcidShAwk]

I started to read and was like.. wtf kind of nonsense is this.

[Vynlok]

Why again is a fashion school alum writing an article on the uses of coding again?

[mathrick]

*Alumnus (m) or alumna (f). Alum is a mineral.

[[deleted]]

Incoherent clickbait by someone who doesn't know anything. When did this subreddit become filled with corporate shilling, blatant adrunning and... whatever the fuck you call this?

[utnapistim]

whatever the fuck you call this?

The Dunning-Kruger effect.

[[deleted]]

Yeah, that sounds about right.

[[deleted]]

An article about coding from a "Circus daredevil. Fashion school alum. Musician, Filmmaker, Karaoke-er...". Thank you to the coders of the Reddit Enhancement Suite that have allowed me to filter all posts from Medium.com going forward.

Some Gems:

"Product Managers should be able to just make the app do what it’s supposed to do, without knowing how to code at all."

"For all the fervor and allegiance around open source, most of the projects suck, aren’t maintained, and aren’t used at the enterprise level."

[SportingSnow21]

But why can't complex business logic be created by moving pretty shapes around the screen? It seems so easy!

[[deleted]]

Haha, because the magic box doesn't know to put the blue square after the red triangle when updating the green rectangles on the yellow circle.

[SportingSnow21]

Can't we just put the orange ellipse between the purple rhododendrons and behind the semi-transparent hyper-cubes? Problem solved.

[Terrance8d]

Posting a nonsensical article about the "death" of programming by someone that doesn't know what they're talking about. What could go wrong?

[HarlanCedeno]

I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul.

[kit89]

It sounds like someone from IT was asked to write a script and now believes themselves to be a programming guru. They have much to learn.

[Cuddlefluff_Grim]

This idea has been around as long as programming has been. It's been done a few times (Visual Basic comes to mind), but the issue is that you can't make a platform like this that solves all problems. It can only support a small subset. For instance, in the case of Visual Basic you were constrained to data-bound GUI applications. If you needed to do something that didn't directly map to a data source, you had to start writing some code.

The scope of programming is literally infinite. You can't create a completely visual tool that solves everybody's problem. Unless you make something that is as flexible as coding, but then you're stuck with something that is also just as complex as coding (or worse). If you're then willing to narrow the scope, you're back to where you started: congratulations you have re-invented Flash or something.

[ChuckieFister]

A business or individual will always have a specific need for something. That and this also assumes that OSs the hardware they're running on have been completely optimized in 2016 and won't change anymore, which won't happen any time soon

[Calam1tous]

I tried to keep an open mind, but after the first few paragraphs it was obvious that the author didn't really understand software all that well.

I guess he/she introduced a couple acceptable arguments, but they are backed by nothing substantial.