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Roy de Jong

Dec 25, 2018

Will WIX take it over in the future?

Hello guys, my name is Roy. I am a 15 year old guy that wants to be a programmer in the future.

I really enjoy learning about JAVASCRIPT and other things. But the thing that Im worried about the most is WIX. when I see their fancy ads on youtube it almost makes me puke. it seems so easy to build a website for anyone at any time!

The things is.. I really want to keep learning new things but I also feel like I'm learning it for nothing, because WIX and other website providers will take web developers over in the future.

Does anyone has a suggestion or advice for what programming language I can learn the best for in the future (5/10 years from now )

#javascript #wix #worried

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I hosted my first website in Wix in 2008/2009!

I used to create websites in both Wix and WordPress. Needless to say its an easy to create a static website when compared to creating it from scratch. Whenever a client approaches me for a static website (which they needs really fast) I prefer Wix/WordPress.

But I'll never use Wix for my own projects. A good example would be my.im Its built from scratch in ReactJS, not Wix. Why?

You'll never get the flexibility of doing it yourself
Pricing. Creating a website is ReactJS and hosting in Netlify or S3 doesn't cost you anything/negligible $$s. Their pricing is too high
Limited - I found it too difficult to add something to the <head> in Wix. It's their platform!
Optimize for speed - They'll inject script that is not necessary or can be optimized. You don't have control over it.
No dynamic content. What if once I got a requirement to show a leaderboard from a DB? Wix only supports static website

There are many other sites to create a website similar to Wix. Yes, a small percentage of static websites can be built using these tools. But they're never going to replace our React, Vue, Angular or anything

Keep learning JavaScript. It's a good start. Don't worry about Wix and other platforms.

If you're worried, just about Wix, think in this way:

Can Google be built with Wix - NO
Can Facebook be built with Wix - NO
Can Hasnode be built with Wix - NO
Can GitHub be built with Wix - NO
Can StackOverflow be built with Wix - NO
Can MFY (only homepage) be built with Wix - Yes, But I won't 😉 😄

Mark

Dec 25, 2018

I don't know WIX except from Googling it just now, but these things have existed for quite a while. So far they have, at best, automated some of the boilerplate tasks.

Creating specialized software to make common patterns easier is one thing. Making software to solve programming problems in general needs huge advancements in artificial intelligence.

I would personally predict that there's a lot of years to go before programmers become obsolete.

It will eventually happen. But the same is true for every other job.

Which language you should learn depends mostly on what kind of things you want to build or what problems you want to solve.

Reminds me old geocities, freeweb, 8m, hostgator websites. Everybody had them. But even yahoo couldn't hold geocities then had to shut down. These websites, to me, vouchers of the market. Trying to get uneducated clients as much as possible by advertising fancy layouts, and profit by volume. Once people understand they can't do much, or shoot this is just a amateur thing to do, my business needs a proffesionally built custom website, then they leave. So they are not taking over the future of internet or anything.

That also helps us, developers, to grade a client when they say "I built my website on WIX but..." that they have no clue about internet and marketing, all they want is a website because it is cool to have and everyone has one.

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