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58 lines
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<p>A topic that I am very disturbed about are Game/Website creators. These
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programs are what I consider is helping to destroy the technology industry.
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Not only is this causing for more people to be able to create mediocre apps
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(games, websites, or otherwise) and therefore lowering programming salaries
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and the chances <b>real programmers</b> have of obtaining a job, but it also
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promotes bad code leading to bloated projects.</p>
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<p>The first aspect is that these 'creators' are destroying the industry for
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<b>real programmers</b> (not people who think they're programmers because
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some mobile app creator helped them make a stupid clock app that they put
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on their phone). This is because it is allowing more people who have <b>no
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respect</b> for the field to enter and create bad apps. More people
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entering the field means less work for <b>real programmers</b> and the little
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work that may be found will be for lower wages (something that for now the
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programmer master race has been able to avoid because of the few people
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who want to get involved in programming due to its intense logic and, in
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some cases, mathematics).</p>
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<p>The second aspect is that it leads to bad code and terrible performance.
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This is because these creators turn whatever is put into their GUI into a
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real programming language which then gets compiled or interpreted. The
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issue with this kind of cross-compiling is that it makes the code <b>a lot</b>
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uglier and <b>a lot</b> messier. A good example of this without even looking
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at creators is the <a href="http://haxe.org/" target="_blank" >HaXe Programming Language</a>, which I
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had used for a while to make Flash games (before thinking I'm stupid for
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using Flash please take into account that this was before JavaScript became
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such a powerful language that you could easily write games with it, before
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HTML5 came out). With HaXe you don't actually compile, you cross-compile
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into another language and that language then gets compiled or interpreted.
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Now, if you look at the code that is generated by HaXe in the other
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language (as I have) you will see that it is <b>very</b> unnecessarily messy.
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This isn't hard to understand why it creates something so messy, just think
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how you would actually do something like this, that cross-compiles to
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another language, it's not a very easy task. Same goes for the creators,
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they turn whatever you created in the GUI to a programming language and
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along with it comes a ton of unnecessary code that will just take up more
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memory and make performance slower. In this aspect, can I blame them? No.
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But that doesn't justify it being a replacement for the programming the
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app yourself.</p>
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<p>Finally, even though one could say "It helps others get interested in the
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field.". This is wrong, very much so. How can one say that it will help
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others gain interest in the field if they're not even doing anything about
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the field (that is, <b>they're not programming</b>). If you're using a creator
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you obviously don't care about the field, since you're trying very hard to
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avoid all the hard stuff that goes along with creating decent apps. Instead
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of learning it all, hard and easy, you learn something that does the actual
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programming for you ('game maker make me a game') instead of having genuine
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interest in making something nice.</p>
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<p>To put it this way, I'm fine if you use a website creator, for example, to
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make a personal website of yours (just don't expect me to debug it
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when things to wrong, 'cause I don't want to have to go through one <b>very
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long line</b> of HTML and CSS). Other than that, <b>no game creators</b> and
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<b>no app creators</b>. All these do is ruin the the programming industry and
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turn code quality down, performance down, and wages down.</p>
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