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Three years of building no-code software for political organizations (write.as)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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[–] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

On the off chance you aren't being intentionally obtuse to troll:

No-code is a term that refers to the perspective of the end user. Of course it is built using code, that's not the point. The person ultimately using it doesn't need to use any code to construct whatever the tool is enabling (automatons, websites, etc), which massively increases the target demographic who can use the tool.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes, I get the intention of the term. I don’t understand why it exists. It’s unnecessary. Most software is designed to not require you to write code to use it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Hmm okay, that's true. I guess there's another aspect missing from my description above then: no-code is for doing tasks in ways that resemble how you'd do them with code, but without directly using code.

    Think about the nodes in Blender or Node-RED, or the blocks in visual scripting for kids to learn. It's using the same concepts of code, but with varying amounts of abstraction depending on which example we look at.

    WordPress is a CMS, that's true, and is usually how it's described. Specifically, though, the block editor is what I assume the OP was referring to as no-code. That part of WordPress is abstracted more than a tree of nodes in Blender, but they're both examples of an effort by those softwares to make doing those tasks more approachable to users.

    Inkscape could probably also be described as no-code if you squinted hard enough, since it's letting you manipulate SVG tags directly without needing to open a text editor and know the SVG spec.

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