As a sometime developer myself and late-blooming CS student I see things like this and start to feel insecure about my place in the world... if the barrier to entry keeps getting lower so that anybody can build an app, what's the point?
Obviously, I need not feel this way. Why? b/c this trend where eventually 'civilians' w/ no training in info tech or knowledge of conventional programming languages will be in a position to build stuff on the fly implies that the state of the art of software engineering is going to be miles from where we are today, and to me this is a good thing: hardcore software engineers have always been focused on making tools.
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As a sometime developer myself and late-blooming CS student I see things like this and start to feel insecure about my place in the world... if the barrier to entry keeps getting lower so that anybody can build an app, what's the point?
Obviously, I need not feel this way. Why? b/c this trend where eventually 'civilians' w/ no training in info tech or knowledge of conventional programming languages will be in a position to build stuff on the fly implies that the state of the art of software engineering is going to be miles from where we are today, and to me this is a good thing: hardcore software engineers have always been focused on making tools.