No-Code Platforms Are Creating a New (Maybe Better) Class of Developers

Thanks to no-code platforms, developers can be freed from syntax. Use that to up your logic game.

I’ve rediscovered my love of coding. And I did so without writing a single line of code.

No-code platforms are not a new invention. They’ve actually been around as long as code. The first startup I ever joined was a software development company that pivoted to selling the frameworks we had created to increase the speed and quality of our own development.

And as long as I’m dating myself, the first time I ever wrote a line of code was on a Commodore 64. Since then, I’ve founded, built, and sold companies in which I was the sole developer. But I haven’t touched a programming language in any professional way for a decade. I’ve been content to let real programmers do the actual programming.

Over that decade, languages, stacks and platforms have gone in and out of vogue, and most everything I was proficient in got too old to be of much use any longer (happens to the best of us at some point).

I now look at software code like a foreign language I picked up over a summer. I can hear it and I understand some of it, but I’m afraid to speak it lest I sound like an idiot.