[jiveturkey]

"Waste" and "one year" are horrible assumptions behind this question.

What about "wasting" 4 years of high school and "wasting" a few years of college? Why should someone with an idea be hampered by wasting this time? One year is nothing, and even if it were a long time, it's not a "waste" -- you come out of it with a skill that is needed today, ie if you want to be part of the technical side of the company you wish to found.

Secondly, a mere one year of study is not going to result in a skilled practitioner. You will be able to make prototypes.

Digging a little deeper:

> *It's a fact"

No, it isn't. FE development is still not a "mature" space and Wix and the like only offer rather trivial customizations to a well-defined and constrained environment. What you describe as FE development is really content creation and styling, not "development".

Now that I've poo-poo'd the thought, in counterpoint do you know about kintone and the like? There's an entire ecosystem of no-code app development systems out there already. Some of them probably qualify as "mature".

[zzzcpan]

Any sufficiently flexible tool for development is pretty much indistinguishable from a programming language. No-code programming is still programming.

[joaodmj]

Interesting point. I have to agree 100%. No matter how you create an application it will always have to have code. Even if for the user it may seem a "no-code" app.

[joaodmj]

I agree with you "waste" is a strong word when talking about learning new concepts.

On the FE side I stated it is a fact because of the revenue numbers of Wix and Squarespace (both around $500 Million / year). These numbers establish that they are solving a problem, i.e. non-technical people creating and managing their own applications. I can see my kids creating their apps and sites on a visual base...

[AnimalMuppet]

"They're solving a problem (for some people)" != "they will replace FE development for (almost) all people", though.