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by TeMPOraL 2053 days ago
The other problem with "no code" is that code is more than just text on the screen. It's a way of thinking. A very formal and precise way of thinking, which is what you need to have to be able to make a computer do what you want, and not do the things you don't want it to do.

To build complex things with "no code" tools, you need to adopt the coding mindset anyway. You end up discovering concepts like modularization, abstraction, you end up internalizing what the "no code" building blocks actually do, vs. what they advertise to be doing. But by then, what you're doing is just writing code in an extremely inefficient, unergonomic and probably visual way, and you'd be better off having learned a programming language.