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Create JavaScript, CSS Interactions With Zero Lines of Code

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Re: Create JavaScript, CSS Interactions With Zero Lines of Code

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Let me preface this by saying: I have the upmost respect for the Webflow developers and designers...they've created a highly-functional web app with the purpose of enabling creators...the process to make such a full-featured web-browser product with such a range of capability is astounding. That said, I disagree with the implication that Webflow, and similar products, solve the problems of code, e.g., the phrase "Do…

i actually came here to say pretty much the same thing. as a front end dev, i thought the site looked and functioned pretty well. if you can get someone to build that complex of a site with some "non-coding" tools, well done. my concern is that you've taken the problem of coding and replaced it with a new one. people who don't understand how the web works won't be able to build amazing beautiful sites with this produ…

This is like saying that people shouldn't use Excel because they won't understand how the CPU works.

The audience here is people that feels comfortable doing stuff tweaking parameters on a dialog box, they don't care if the dialog box is actually a lazy evaluated reactive continuation or whatever as long as it does the job.

An abstraction layer for web technology is as relevant, revolutionary and useful as an abstraction layer for the CPU was on its time (in fact the most succesful companies did exactly this).

Re: Create JavaScript, CSS Interactions With Zero Lines of Code

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Totally get your point, and we could have a fun philosophical discussion around whether or not people SHOULD want to learn how to code. However, it's pretty clear that most of the people in the world who want to create/share content on the web are NOT interested in learning how to code at all, right? I mean, that's a big part of the reason why blogging platforms, and many other user-generated content sites are so hug…

Nah man, you are contributing to the problem. Less training wheels, the world is a better place without them. Drink your kool aid all you want, coding will never be replaced by a solution like this. It will simply allow someone to get closer to what they want before they grow frustrated by unforeseen limitations they will eventually run into; then they need to hire a real coder to fix everything, and likely replace i…

"Nah man, you are contributing to the problem. Less training wheels, the world is a better place without them."

Tell that to all the Wordpress based projects out there or Dev Frameworks.

Some users just need an outlet to express fairly static data in engaging ways and don't need the overhead of learning a CRUD/REST stack in their way.

There will always be a need for experts who know who computer science actually works but harder things will continue to be further simplified.

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