When did the ideal of end user programming slip from our fingers?
- When did the ideal of end user programming slip from our fingers?
- I've previously thought of it as the shift from PCs to the cloud.
- Cloud gives the benefit of simplicity, reliability, and scale.
- But it trades off control.
- Your software running on your turf, to someone else's software on their turf.
- Someone I was chatting with this week localized it to the shift from the terminal to the GUI.
- The terminal is infinitely malleable; just text you can pipe together in whatever combination you want.
- GUIs are shrink wrapped, pixel-perfect, every pixel in a particular place.