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by hzlatar 1641 days ago
35 years ago, that same question was asked, but in a different context. It was thought that when there are BASIC and spreadsheets there is no need to do any more serious coding.

Even more so 25 years ago when various GUIs became ubiquitous.

About 20 years ago, Flash and Dreamweaver were promising the same.

You see where it's going.

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Not exactly. VisualBasic and MS Access were pretty powerful. Something remade in the cloud with collaboration and versioning that combines those with spreadsheet like intuitiveness could get us closer than ever. Airtable is maybe leading so far.