I’m thrilled that you love JavaScript, and that you get to use it frequently in Airtable!
However, I would suspect that the vast majority of people who came to Airtable were hoping for a low-code/no-code DIY experience. While Airtable might natively support writing JavaScript code, it is still an entire programming language which is not easy for most people to learn.
Nor should they need to learn it, in my opinion, For example, why would a veterinarian who is setting up Airtable to keep track of his pets want to spend weeks or months learning a computer programming language so that he can create one simple automation in Airtable? It’s a huge waste of his time and energy and money. He has a practice to run.
Calling Make a programming language makes it sound more complex than it really is. While it can definitely get complicated, for most people’s needs it is as easy as snapping together legos. Anybody can look at a colorful ball that says “create new Airtable record” and know immediately what it means. Make is mostly point-and-click (and in plain English).
You left out vocabulary words, which is the big one. Scripting is an entirely different language, like learning Greek or Hungarian. Some people want to learn foreign languages. The majority of people don’t need to. People specifically come to Airtable for its ease of use… and snapping 2 colored balls together in Make carries on that ease of use.
But the great news is that there is something for everyone! For computer programmers like you, there’s scripting! :slightly_smiling_face: And for computer programmers like me, there’s Make! :slightly_smiling_face:
The irony here is that we’re both computer programmers, but after 30+ years of writing code, I’m on a much-needed break from writing code for now! :winking_face:
