No Code

Posted2 months agoActive2 months ago

Elliott-Diy

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The 'No Code' GitHub repository is a humorous example of 'no-code' programming, which sparks discussion about the concept and its implementations.

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2 months ago

1 reply

Spoiler: it encodes your code with two zero width utf characters

not4uffin

2 months ago

1 reply

So I'm not crazy to think that this project does nothing. (or at at least very little)

tobyjsullivan

2 months ago

It’ll help keep PRs short

hyperhello

2 months ago

1 reply

Can you make it so I don't have to run it, though?

cjfd

2 months ago

It runs automatically in the cloud.

timdorr

2 months ago

3 replies

Still my favorite personal project: https://github.com/timdorr/-

Thanks to hard work like this: https://github.com/timdorr/-/commit/9e5a571abd3fc4f8714e8c40...

sunnybeetroot

2 months ago

2 replies

Not sure I understand, is it hard to commit no changes?

danielheath

2 months ago

It’s art, the point is not to perform a difficult technical task.

apples_oranges

2 months ago

git commit —-allow-empty -m „nope“

hyperhello

2 months ago

1 reply

Under what license is this published?

timdorr

2 months ago

Yes

suzzer99

2 months ago

I'd submit a pull request, but I don't want to mushroom your code complexity.

suprjami

2 months ago

3 replies

Copy of https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode which has been around a lot longer with additional humour in the Issues section.

arvindh-manian

2 months ago

I believe the repo linked in the post is actually quite different, converting Python to runnable whitespace.

runjake

2 months ago

Yep, this project credits inspiration from Kelsey’s repo on the linked page.

liggitt

2 months ago

That brings back memories... https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode/issues/3#issuecomm... was one of my favorites

keyle

2 months ago

It does way more than a true No Code solution would.

   /dev/null

would like a word! /s

iron-s

2 months ago

Theres this gem in perl also: https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::Bleach

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