I could type ~four lines and an alert box response from a visual form.

For years I have lamented the amount of paperwork necessary in most of modern programming to get things done. I don't know how important that is now that I have a machine fill out the paperwork. It would still be better if there was less fuss.

▲ kccqzy 9 hours ago | parent [-]

    <button onclick="alert(1)">Click Me</button>

The amount of paperwork is controllable. It’s just that most programmers have a tendency to prefer more paperwork because they believe it is a better software architecture.

That said I also lament the death of WYSIWYG-style HTML authoring tools. This is I think the same affliction that caused programmers to prefer writing code to build UIs rather than drawing it interactively.

	▲	Arch-TK 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Interactive UI design tools are cool when you're not a programmer, an inexperienced programmer, or lack the imagination necessary to create new abstractions. UI preview tools are incredibly useful, hot reloading when doing UI work is, again, incredibly useful. What nobody needs in their life is to meticulously hand place elements and align them only for the auto-resizing logic to fuck things up. You want good abstractions which let you easily and quickly define UI elements and to define new composable widgets. So that you can declare in your code details of how things should be aligned with respect to each other, and leave final layout to more code which, if you are lucky, you might not even need to write. For an example, check out jetpack compose. It's not completely flawless, but it truly isn't bad.