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A start-up at the intersection of 'developer tools' and 'NoCode' would be very exciting to me. I'd love to see tools that reflect some of the principles outlined in Bret Victor's blog.

http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/ http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/

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Just remember that the tool has to be useful and practical at the end of the day. Red's obsession with crypto tokens and the failure of Eve reflects badly on the rapid application development ecosystem (on the other extreme, you have Embarcadero Delphi and SAP, each costing n-figures). Microsoft's suite is for some reason on life support. Access, Visual Basic are all pale shadows of their former selves.

Visual Basic died because Microsoft chose not to continue development of the VB6 comatible ecosystem. It was a multibillion dollar a year business in the 1990s

Have a look at https://fibery.io

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