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by johncowan 1687 days ago
SQL is no/low-code compared to using a low-level database like BDB for a given level of power. And yet it's much simpler for most use cases.

By the same token, C is low-code compared to assembler, Python is low-code compared to C, and Steel Bank Common Lisp is low-code compared to Python.

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Using the same kind of reasoning, JavaScript is a framework and JQuery is no code. Or maybe React and Angular are no code and JQuery is low code? We basically need a firm, objective basis for determining what a thing is. The question is: what is it?