The mobile age is coming, with a very fast pace. But most people today still think mobile devices will not replace PC completely. One reason may be programming is difficult on mobile devices. This is right, if we will always program by typing texts.

The “Text Typing -> Compile -> Link” model is so successful in the past decades so that other models fall into the shade. But with the coming of mobile age, the situation will change.

Text programming obviously is not a good model in mobile age. How about visual programming? Visual programming really has more natural advantages than text programming. They will surely get a larger market share on mobile devices than PC. But I don’t think traditional visual programmings will be the final winner on mobile devices. If it will, it has defeated text programming on PC already. The reasons why it didn’t win on PC are exact the reasons why it will not will win on mobile device.

(Here, I mean the narrow visual programming definition, for example, LabView. In a wider visual programming definition, using Adobe Flash CS even PhotoShop can also be viewed as visual programming. Artists are programmers, programmers are also artists. :))

What programming language model will win on mobile devices? I really don’t know. But I have a candidate solution, which is a combination of traits from both text programming and traditional visual programming. Finger Programming is a good name for it. But I would call it NoCompiler Programming or YouComiler Programming language. Yes, this type languages need NOT compiler. You, the programmer, is the compiler. When a program is coded done, it is already compiled. We just need a linker to create the final execute program or a no-compiler VM to run it.

It is hard for me to describe clearly how to use NoCompiler languages to program here. If you ever used Phyard Builder’s script editor, you know what I say above. Now the Piapia language, Phyard Builder’s script language, is still far to the perfect implementation of a good NoCompiler language. I will improve it continuously. In fact, the current implementation is much like the script editor of Flash MX Studio (I really don’t know what it is like in Flash CS), but there will be more and more differences.

If NoCompiler programming model, or another model for mobile age, wins text programming, the PC age will be over.
Another impact of NoCompiler languages is the current predicted future Cloud Compilers will become Cloud Linkers.