Parrish: No-code builders should be called developers, not coders
Darian Parrish · The Bezos Yawn Factor: Why No-Code Will Feel Mundane Soon · Mar 24, 2021 · at 12:02
Darian Parrish, co-founder of RadSeattle, explains the technical mechanics of visual programming platforms like Bubble and why building application logic qualifies users as developers.
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“It's still appropriate to call them developers is they do develop software. They just, someone who's developing on bubble. They're developing. They're just not writing code. So you wouldn't call them a coder, but you still call them a developer because they're building an application on top of no code.”
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