Low-code and the democratization of programming
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In the past decade, the growth in low-code and no-code solutions—promising that anyone can create simple computer programs using templates—has become a multi-billion dollar industry that touches everything from data and business analytics to application building and automation.
It's the worst form of programming, after all the others?
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In the past decade, the growth in low-code and no-code solutions—promising that anyone can create simple computer programs using templates—has become a multi-billion dollar industry that touches everything from data and business analytics to application building and automation.
It's the worst form of programming, after all the others?
And when it really breaks in (because it sadly will do it), the next wave of hacking, scamming, phishing, etc, etc, etc... will get a new dimension.
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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In the past decade, the growth in low-code and no-code solutions—promising that anyone can create simple computer programs using templates—has become a multi-billion dollar industry that touches everything from data and business analytics to application building and automation.
It's the worst form of programming, after all the others?
The new is well forgotten old. It's used to be called 4th Generation Languages - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_language. I remember back in the 80-ies and early 90-ies working with DBase, Clipper, Userbase, FoxBase, ... They all waned away because while it's creates and expectation of easy development, it's incredibly hard to push the limits that are provided for you out of the box. The only thing changed is a platform - instead of personal computer or network, now it's browser and cloud. At the place I work for, we have over 4,000 Access DBs that were developed by end-user and dumped on IT when user moves to a better pastures, creating a situation that is impossible to manage long term. And that's not to say about the fact that most of low-code companies will go out of business all together, leaving you high and dry, lucky if you can preserve your virtual environment but without the support. Thanks - I'll just follow Art of War - “If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”
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In the past decade, the growth in low-code and no-code solutions—promising that anyone can create simple computer programs using templates—has become a multi-billion dollar industry that touches everything from data and business analytics to application building and automation.
It's the worst form of programming, after all the others?
While i can easily imagine the pitfalls ahead for this, i keep in mind how Excel with VBA (replacing the swamp of writing macros) enabled a lot of intelligent people to be more productive. And, way back, was a ticket to lucrative work ... for me. However, part of that Excel goodness was the ability to use the same Work/Books/Sheets and VBA on the Mac. Can anything upcoming be as useful, as understandable, as Excel was/is ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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The new is well forgotten old. It's used to be called 4th Generation Languages - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_language. I remember back in the 80-ies and early 90-ies working with DBase, Clipper, Userbase, FoxBase, ... They all waned away because while it's creates and expectation of easy development, it's incredibly hard to push the limits that are provided for you out of the box. The only thing changed is a platform - instead of personal computer or network, now it's browser and cloud. At the place I work for, we have over 4,000 Access DBs that were developed by end-user and dumped on IT when user moves to a better pastures, creating a situation that is impossible to manage long term. And that's not to say about the fact that most of low-code companies will go out of business all together, leaving you high and dry, lucky if you can preserve your virtual environment but without the support. Thanks - I'll just follow Art of War - “If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”
gstolarov wrote:
And that's not to say about the fact that most of low-code companies will go out of business all together, leaving you high and dry, lucky if you can preserve your virtual environment but without the support.
Good luck with that. Letting you run their platfarm locally instead of only in their cloud (Read "AWS or Azure, but priced about 10x as high and with worse QoS") would deny them the ability to harvest all your IT budget before going bust (read "Retire in luxury to a tropical island").
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius