We really need a revolution in the low code space. The amount of code we write - database, backend, api, frontend, etc.. to do the simplest CRUD task, makes me feel like compared to future programmers we're all cavemen rubbing two sticks together.
Better tooling for data-oriented interfaces is the answer. Everything CRUD does is at the interface layer. If you improve the semantics and discoverability of the interface, you enable better tools and products to grow from that.
This talk encapsulates (heh) a lot of the ideals that I agree with. Strong guarantees at the interface layer are good, and foster better tools and products, whether they are low code or not. If you know with great specificity what is required at the boundaries, it crystallizes most things inside of any app. It’s not a silver bullet! But it limits the damage we can do and steers us in the right direction.
Not sure what this has to do with the immense amount of code that needs to be written across various layers in a stack to do the simplest task. Can you translate this into some real and actionable?
This is a late reply, and I think I misunderstood your meaning.
I don’t have good answers on how to drop layers from the stack, they all seem pretty necessary. Storage is obvious, backend is needed for authentication if nothing else and powers the API layer. Front end could be replaced by APIs, and often is in products, but someone ultimately has to write a view for humans if humans will use the system.
