It’s interesting to me that all these companies are going “less programming needed” when if you look at this forum everyone is aiming for real IDE’s, git controllable code, and production environments. Maybe it’s an anti-pattern that the loudest market segment is non-programming users reaching out to marketing of Tecan, Hamilton, Agilent. Where most of us that can take control of our code do so by finding hacks; then work inside the system to make semi usable production environments.
I distinctly remember walking up to the Agilent booth at SLAS and a sales rep being “with our new GUI’s you don’t have to write a single piece of code”, which made me immediately question how anyone unit tests anything produced or version controls their assays! I also remember 2 years ago at SLAS the most attended talk was on how to implement git and breakdown Hamilton code into a production environment, so who is driving this? Is this what the market really wants!?