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leob • Edited

Reminds me a lot of the 4GL's of the 80s, or of "Model Driven Development" (and it sounds a lot like the "no code" or "light code" movement too) ...

But, I do see the value of the idea of 'automating away' the repetitive, boiler-plate like parts of coding/development, and of replacing "imperative programming" by "declarative programming".

The point is - this has been tried in so many different ways, shapes and forms (see my opening sentence), but reality is we're still writing code "in the old way".

But, never say never, who knows how we'll construct software in 10 or 15 years from now - I can't really imagine that we'll be doing it exactly as we are doing it now, by endlessly coding our React hooks and components and whatnot - I do expect a large part of it to be done somehow in a more "high level", abstracted, declarative, model-driven way.