I really don't understand projects like this. Why can't people just learn to code, in an actual programming language? To me this is like instead of teaching people to read and write you teach them to draw pictures and use emojis instead.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16625687
> No Klik & Play?! It was the reason I can say I was building and distributing my own games back in 5th grade!
> No Lego Mindstorms!? I was building Robots with six degrees of freedom in middle school!
I think you, in fact, do understand the value of human-oriented programming.
I’m not sure if I’d generalize my own experiences to the general public. Even though I used simple drag and drop interfaces to create programs before, I was also tinkering with HTML and JavaScript, so they weren’t a gateway to real coding. My time spent with actual programming languages greatly accelerated my learning.
I’d argue that programming languages are already human oriented, it’s not like we’re putting together programs with assembly or binary code like some people imagine. And syntax and conventions improve all the time to make it easier.
If you want to be able to simply speak a program’s requirements and watch it happen, there’s already a solution for that: hire a coder.
> If you want to be able to simply speak a program’s requirements and watch it happen, there’s already a solution for that: hire a coder.
If everyone had this attitude we'd still be traveling between cities on foot.
Based on their demo, it appears the purpose of the language was to push the "human centered" aspect of it even further, and not to settle for what's possible today.
