Whence that new study ...
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Of course it does... Low-code tools boost developer productivity[^] "Over 90 percent of respondents to a new survey say that low-code tools have boosted developer productivity in their organizations. 43.5 percent of developers are saving up to 50 percent of their time when they use low-code tools on a project." I keeping thinking one of these days I will actually find an organization that actually measures developer productivity. Or devops. Or IT. Or DBAs. Or CEOs. Now Sales ... those guys have it down ... 'how many contracts did you sign last month?' But back to the article ... ""Low-code software has real value in democratizing software development to include non-developers," says Jason Beres, senior VP of developer tools at Infragistics, and creator of App Builder software." Any one want to guess what Infragistics sells? Come on - I dare you. The 'story' is based on a study created by ... bet you can't guess! "The full report is available from the App Builder site."
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Of course it does... Low-code tools boost developer productivity[^] "Over 90 percent of respondents to a new survey say that low-code tools have boosted developer productivity in their organizations. 43.5 percent of developers are saving up to 50 percent of their time when they use low-code tools on a project." I keeping thinking one of these days I will actually find an organization that actually measures developer productivity. Or devops. Or IT. Or DBAs. Or CEOs. Now Sales ... those guys have it down ... 'how many contracts did you sign last month?' But back to the article ... ""Low-code software has real value in democratizing software development to include non-developers," says Jason Beres, senior VP of developer tools at Infragistics, and creator of App Builder software." Any one want to guess what Infragistics sells? Come on - I dare you. The 'story' is based on a study created by ... bet you can't guess! "The full report is available from the App Builder site."
I mean, I hear what you're saying. But allow me to play devil's advocate in defense of low code tools at least. Good ones are gold. SynthMaker (now FlowStone) is absolutely amazing. It was used to build Audio VSTs but is now an entire industrial automation creation tool. It's really well designed, and doesn't limit you strictly to its framework, which is extensible. As far as productivity, I'd be interested if someone commissioned research on studying HOW to measure developer productivity effectively. That would be a tall order because you have to define things like effectively, but if one could pull it off I'd be rapt.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Of course it does... Low-code tools boost developer productivity[^] "Over 90 percent of respondents to a new survey say that low-code tools have boosted developer productivity in their organizations. 43.5 percent of developers are saving up to 50 percent of their time when they use low-code tools on a project." I keeping thinking one of these days I will actually find an organization that actually measures developer productivity. Or devops. Or IT. Or DBAs. Or CEOs. Now Sales ... those guys have it down ... 'how many contracts did you sign last month?' But back to the article ... ""Low-code software has real value in democratizing software development to include non-developers," says Jason Beres, senior VP of developer tools at Infragistics, and creator of App Builder software." Any one want to guess what Infragistics sells? Come on - I dare you. The 'story' is based on a study created by ... bet you can't guess! "The full report is available from the App Builder site."
in democratizing software development to include non-developer is sheer marketing BS. This is a VP in development? I've lived enough of my life watching a democracy destroy perfectly good code because the person in charge would not wave the BS flag. what drivel.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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I mean, I hear what you're saying. But allow me to play devil's advocate in defense of low code tools at least. Good ones are gold. SynthMaker (now FlowStone) is absolutely amazing. It was used to build Audio VSTs but is now an entire industrial automation creation tool. It's really well designed, and doesn't limit you strictly to its framework, which is extensible. As far as productivity, I'd be interested if someone commissioned research on studying HOW to measure developer productivity effectively. That would be a tall order because you have to define things like effectively, but if one could pull it off I'd be rapt.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
the real story about "measuring" developer productivity - if anyone ever really truly wanted to know, would tag two things. The people measuring cannot define any reasonable sort of measurement, and two, most development is brand new - almost an art form. Rarely are developers given a tangible target or description of a target. years ago, I worked in a group (actually still do but 1/2 are gone now) developers. The development project started with the ubiquitous phrase - "how long?" to which the developers asked, "what is it you want?" This got an eye roll from product development, management and sales. After falling prey to guilt, the developers threw out estimates where upon they were told, "no, that's too long, it has to be ready for the xxx3 trade show." After the other people's delivery target went zooming by (after a lot of free OT), the entire engineering group were held accountable for missing "their" estimate. 6 months later, we had a number of cubicles open.... So, what's the benefit of "low-code" tools? It's called RAD, tosses something fast in front of the possible customer to figure out what the customer really wants.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.