In the future, there will be no need for code. You just describe what you want, and an IA will build the app for you

And how would you call a specification precise enough so a machine can use it to create a product ?

Configuration in the face of essential complexity

Static values

Meta-values

Branches

Operators

Deep conditionals

Evaluable

Guess what ?

It's called code

...without versioning
...with a worse IDE
...without tests
 

And you now got a tool to maintain !

Data without configuration

How to optimize maintainability cost ?

w/ the assumption that developer time is expensive
... and that users are not idiots

Engine v1

Code in data

Engine v2

Code in data + data

Engine v3

Data in code

Config ?

Already solved for jekyll on github pages