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No-Code and WYSIWYG: A Perfect Match
Removing bottlenecks one at a time
Products that enable people to quickly and easily make useful things are on everyone's mind. This is referred to as the no-code movement as of late. Closely related, WYSIWYG tools were and still are a big deal.
Before we dive into how all these pieces fit together, let’s get the Wikipedia definitions out of the way:
No-code
Allows programmers and non-programmers to create application software through graphical user interfaces and configuration instead of traditional computer programming.
WYSIWYG
What You See Is What You Get is a system where editing software allows content to be edited in a form that resembles its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product.
You might see where I’m going with this, but entertain me for a second. It’s clear that no-code and WYSIWYG are different but related. Before we explore this further, we need to go into why these concepts work independently of each other.
Why No-Code Works
In order to understand the no-code movement, you need to understand one of the core concepts in computer science: Abstraction. Believe it or not, we deal with abstractions each and…
