In the same way that you are implementing the UI, you sometimes also need to implement the UX. Animations are part of the UX, preloading is part of the UX… That sort of things.

Problem is the e2e encryption. The bridge basically decrypts your emails and makes them locally accessible.

It is technically impossible at the moment to keep your emails end-to-end encrypted and not have to use a bridge for your client of choice. It will only be possible if your client of choice partners with Proton to integrate them, or if a standard for e2e encrypted emails pops up and both Proton and your client adopt it.

Because forking a buggy suite isn’t always the best choice? If they have the ressources, and they do, making their own is best for everyone. More choices.

Both are to be designed then developed.

Why is transpilation unappealing to you?

That is not how the internet works

Obviousness? If you mass layoff your tech staff, you take the risk of more technical failures.

A smaller staff cannot do the same work as a larger one, and I guarantee you they’re being asked to progress at the same speed. So, the tradeoff is on the quality of the product and the testing, not on the speed of development.

I would say your biggest issue here is needing precise decimal point computations and using imprecise data types. Any software that requires precision in the decimals needs to use types that are made for precise decimals. No floating point error.

It’s an excuse. A bullshit one. The real reason for this “problem” being addressed is that the meat industry is threatened, and lobbies hard to fight the plant based industry.

But they will lose, eventually.

There is many languages that you can build anything with… Although I’ll agree the front end side is more tedious

I have my own gitea server and very happy with it!

Not every system fits every country.

France had republics before the current 5th that had the president as more of a ceremonial role. But it did not work for us, and both the third and fourth republics ended up with political instability and governments falling one after the other.

The 5th republic purposefully gave more power to the president, to remediate the political instability that France had seen with the previous systems. It works.

No democratic system is perfect. The one Greece has, per your comment, sounds great in theory. But the day where the 3 top parties can’t come to an agreement, and the elections don’t change the outcome, you’ll have an extended period of instability where the government is unable to do anything. And that is absolutely awful for a country.

It is great that Greece isn’t encountering these issues. But France has, and the current system is a fix to that. Let’s not repeat bad History by reverting to a system we know does not work for us.

No, it’s by design. Giving the government to the largest group doesn’t always make sense.

If your largest group is 40%, but the other groups forming the remaining 60% all disagree with the largest group, how is it more democratic to give the 40% group the government? Then you have a givernment that only 40% of the parliament supports.

If you pick a government that satisfies the 60% remaining, you then have a government 60% of the parliament supports. How is that less democratic?

It’s more complicated than that. Don’t get me wrong, I voted for the left block and was pissed they didn’t get to form a government. But it is more complicated than that.

The president has to pick a government that will be able to pass laws with the vote of the parliament. While the left block had the plurality, the rest of the parliament would likely not have voted their policies. Picking a government that would satisfy the rest of the parliament was the best move for stability and to have a government able to do something.

That’s not anti democratic. And that’s actually the system that is used in most representative democracies, in different forms, which always summarises to: Head of state picks a government that has the most chances to be accepted by the parliament.

I’ll add “how expensive” to the list. Sometimes you’ll have to burn through devices.

You call that a criticism? It’s a first impression.

I am a dev as well, and to build a website you traditionally need a dev. Well, nowadays, you can build a website with a “no code” website builder. That’s the most common “no-code” use.

Not that it’s relevant to this conversation, but that doesn’t stop people from hiring me to build their website, because “no code” also means “limited customization” and/or “low quality”.

1. The OS isn’t the software building anything for you.
2. You didn’t build a media center, you installed software that makes a media center. A “no-code” software that would build a media center would not make much sense, as there isn’t a need for any sort of customisation that would not fit into “configuration”.
3. Your point with Minecraft does make sense, but as it does not have any use outside of Minecraft, I wouldn’t call Minecraft a no-code system. However, the system itself that you used inside Minecraft to build your automatic sorter would fit the definition, imo. Redstone is a no-code system, for sure.
4. Firefox didn’t build it, you did.
5. A parametric font isn’t something that would require any code to make, so it doesn’t fit the definition. What makes a parametric font useful is its support, which requires dev work, and is not no-code.
6. A 3D print isn’t something that would require a dev to do. Of course you can always model something with lines of code, but that’s not how you’d sensibly do it.

“Building something” and “Building something that traditionally requires dev work” are not the same thing.

The software you use always needed code to make, but it doesn’t aim to skip the “hire a dev” phase of your project. If it does, it is “no code”.

And for the sake of argument, let’s say that Blender doesn’t exist and no other software fulfilling the same purpose exists. Then you’d have to commission a dev (team) to create that software so that you can train people to create 3D models. But the dev building your 3D modeling software doesn’t typically have the skills to use the software afterwards, so it does not fit the “no-code” definition.

TL;DR: It is a “no-code” software when you can skip the “hire a dev” phase of your project and use said software instead.

No, it definitely does not cover almost all software. Most software does not aim to allow a random user to build something that usually requires a dev.

When you use an OS, you build nothing. When you use a browser, you build nothing. When you use a game, you build nothing. When you use a graphics editor, you build something, but it’s not something that a dev could do.

I could go on with a list of almost all software like this, but that’s not a good use of my time, and I hope it is not necessary.

“no-code” software is a very specific category of software that aims to enable users to build something that usually is built by a dev, without needing one.

And while “no-code” can be a weird name, it makes sense when you read the definition I just gave. Just like “serverless” does not mean there is no server involved (obviously), but simply means you don’t even need to think about the server part.