The Future of Software Is No Code
They&#x27;ve been trying the &quot;let end users code in an impoverished pseudo programming language&quot; for a long time and at best it only ever takes over small niche.  And they still need real programming languages and software engineers to help them overcome their problems when they try to scale, extend, or encounter a problem that&#x27;s too complicated.<p>There are two things here.  The first is sometimes programming languages are harder than they have to be and the other is that sometimes problems are hard.<p>1) Yeah, C++ is really complicated and you could probably replace it with language that was less complicated, but if you&#x27;re trying to do something in the C++ problem space then you&#x27;re still going to require a lot of difficult thought with respect to your problem, your solution, and the machine it&#x27;s implemented on.  You&#x27;re not going to get away from writing driver code with a no code solution.<p>2) If you want to do arbitrary things, then eventually you&#x27;ll need something that&#x27;s turing complete (or really close to it if you&#x27;re going to talk about things like Idris or Agda).  A no code solution might be able to handle things as long as you follow a very carefully constructed path, but eventually your users are going to have reasonable requests that no code solutions won&#x27;t be able to solve because if they could they would just be programming languages unto themselves.<p>If you&#x27;re telling me that eventually CRUD apps will be mostly automated away, then I believe you.  If you&#x27;re telling me that eventually software engineers won&#x27;t be needed then I&#x27;ll see you in line at the unemployment office because the last two jobs to be made obsolete are software engineers and youtube personalities (and last I checked they&#x27;re working on automating youtube personalities).