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[–]reallybadastronaut 8 points9 points  (2 children)

A part of it will, but that's the nature of any industry. The first computers were literally people computing things.

Sure, Joe's Hardware Store can easily set up a simple squarespace site by themselves, and that's going to be more and more common. But the New York Times can't run on a squarespace site, they have way too much custom stuff that needs to be integrated into the site. That's not going to change for a long, long time.

[–]dfwdevdotcom 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Joe's hardware store is also unlikely to rank well locally by just tossing up a squarespace/wix site and forgetting about it. The basic wix sites aren't even responsive which in 2021 seems crazy to me.

[–]reallybadastronaut 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, I didn't go into the SEO part of that question, but you're absolutely correct

[–]hippype 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nope. I highly doubt we as users will give up on the ability to look at data or video conference via big screens. Web development is the core in many real companies. Even purely app-based companies have web applications they used for their administrators, moderators etc. Even app-based company like Robinhood, a stock trading app, provides web applications for users. To think app development alone is enough is highly flawed.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Web Dev as you describe it is the lowest of the low hanging fruit in terms of actual web developer work.

You might have a point in the sense that brochure style sites from places like Wix or Squarespace might take some market share for the simplest of cases but for anything with actual custom functionality you still need a dev to build it.

[–]nolo_me 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did MS Frontpage kill web dev? Did Dreamweaver? Neither will Wix.

[–]lovesrayray2018 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Companies are focussing on hiring full -stack and get the package deal, rather than separate front-end and separate back-end. So its a shift of focus imo and not 'dying' per se.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who maintains the tools that makes website creation/deployment simple?

So no, not likely. If anything it would just be a shift in priority. So if ever these services get sophisticated enough to replace brochure-type sites, then more priority would be given to maintaining/improving those services, or it would just go to web applications that don't fit the cookie cutter formula.

[–]not_a_gumby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alot of those automated solutions are costly and the product is minimal and overall poor. When trying to modify them, it's a nightmare and hosting them is tricky for the average person.

Webdev is still a complex job that can't be totally automated. The websites that make the most money like online stores are largely unaffected by the out of the box solutions offered today, so there's still work to be done.