Will Microsoft Power Platform really make it possible for anyone to be a developer?
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Microsoft was offering "no code database development" in Visual Basic 3, and that was released in 1993. It's true, using VB3 you could build a database system by doing nothing more than dragging and dropping controls onto a form and clicking the property showing where you'd like to source the data from. Yet here we are, 27 years later, and I'm continuing to have a good career as a software developer specializing in databases. No code systems will continue to exist, they will continue be used by "Power users" who all have varying degree of skill, and they will continue to be the bane of the real IT professional who is asked to come up and fix the mistakes of the "Power user", usually after data is lost or a business critical limitation is reached.