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I bet this eventually evolves into something like "VB for the modern web" where you go to the website, just start coding, and all the heavy-lifting of app hosting is taken care of for you. Next up, a visual point-and-draw editor.

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Glitch.com is the close to this (not the visual part).

Divjoy and others have a nice drag/drop - there are variants on this theme.

Maybe someone can bring this all together.

Kind of like "nocode-at-first-but-really-there-is-code-if-you-need-to-edit-it"

Or as you say: VB.

Or better: Access for the modern web.

Glitch is awesome, however it seems somewhat neglected. I know it's geared towards Node development, but last I looked earlier this year it was still on Python 3.6.

Other than that it provides the best experience of being able to throw up demos and allow people to fork and modify them.

That sort of already exists in AWS, where Lambda allows you to just write business logic inside the browser without having to worry anything about hosting, and Step Functions allows you to do drag-and-drop various other AWS services into a state machine. Granted, I'm not sure how much utility you can derive from Step Functions if you also don't write Lambda functions.

But the interface is very cumbersome. Not very productive. To be productive as a developer, you need a lot of other things that VS code provides, but not the Lambda editor.

This already exists for a while in the enterprise space, see stuff like OutSystems for example.

Or Microsoft's Power Apps.

Also, don't forget a whole slew of AI assisted coding and design features.

How realistic is it to move to the Jetbrains light weight editor crm VSCode?

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