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Was low code platforms ever hyped to a tiny fraction of crypto and ai?

• csixty4 8mo ago
  They were when we called them 4GLs.
  • mr-ron 8mo ago
    You mean things like Ruby, Python, Java, SQL that are ubiquitous today?
    • sarchertech 8mo ago
      Yeah but the hype was that the user would become the programmer and programmers wouldn’t be needed anymore.
      • mr-ron 8mo ago
        Well theres a lot less assembly workers, and that tech is now everywhere. Seems like exactly what will happen with AI
        • sarchertech 8mo ago
          In absolute numbers I’m not sure that’s true. But 4GLs aren’t what replaced assembly for anyone. C, C++ and Pascal were the most common assembly replacements. As for C and C++, there definitely aren’t fewer of them in absolute terms. And even in relative terms they are still incredibly popular. All of that is beside the point though. The hype around 4GLs wasn’t that they would replace older programming languages. The hype was that they’d replace programming as a profession in general. You wouldn’t need programming specialists because domain experts could handle programming the computer themselves. This is exactly the same hype around AI coding.