I just gave away the premise of my article in the title, which is terrible for optimizing analytics, but who cares.
A colleague forwarded this article about low-code tools like Budibase that “democratiz[e] the software development process.”
Full quote:
“While no-code platforms go some way toward democratizing the software development process, low-code holds the potential to be just as transformative in terms of how it allows developers to create without having to hand-code everything from scratch.”
The implication is that software development is not currently democratized, meaning that entry to the field is controlled by some omnipotent body and some people are denied access.
The only people denied access are the ones who are too lazy to put in the work toward becoming a developer.
Software development has never been more accessible and open to the average person. These are not the days of yore when our overlord Bill Gates had to have special mainframe access to practice programming. Computers and internet access are cheap and widely available.
The only thing stopping me from becoming a skilled programmer and developer is my laziness. But my laziness does not mean that the bar should be lowered even further so even lazier people can call themselves developers.
One of the reasons for Python’s immense popularity is that it’s a high-level language that is human-readable, making it easy to learn. This means that Guido van Rossum took a less accessible language — C++ in this case — and built another language on top of it that’s easier to use and read. This means I don’t have to go through (or re-go-through) the toil of learning to use C++ to do most tasks that I could do with Python even more easily.
But to allege that Python isn’t freely available to all is total BS. It’s free and it’s one of the most well-documented and tutorialized languages out there.
So close this article and go learn a programming language like Python or JavaScript. And to all the hyper-liberal journalists running e-magazines in Silicon Valley, please stop alleging that software development is not open to all.
It is open to everyone except the ultra-lazy.
