It boggles the mind that they built a "low code" interface to designing websites, with the express purpose of making it easy to use...

..and then used Excel formulas of all things as the basis for its scripting language.

It's as if they wanted these things to be as clunky and spaghettified as possible.

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psunavy03 4 hours ago | parent [-]

At some point, doing things the "low code/no code" way turns out to be more painful than just . . . writing code.

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dylan604 4 hours ago | parent [-]

for those that can write code. if you can't write code, the more painful way is just the way

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jimbokun 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A lot of those people end up writing code without realizing they’re writing code.

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dylan604 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't know the MS offering, but places like Wix/Square or using WordPress definitely do not end up with the user writing code.

	▲	Sohcahtoa82 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Instead, you end up installing an endless list of plugins that are sometimes so poorly written that I've decided to call WordPress "RCE-as-a-Service".

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psunavy03 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's my point. At some point, people's fear of learning code is causing them to do things in ways that are unnecessary and overcomplicated, which is quite a bit ironic.