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posted by Fnord666 on Monday March 30 2020, @12:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-been-tried-before dept.

[20200330_130145 UTC: It appears the author's native language is not English; any mistakes seen here were in the original.--martyb]

Will Low-Code and No-Code merge into a single market segment for both enterprise-class and user-friendly developers?

Today's businesses are implementing enriching their operations with capabilities little by little on a variety of different products. But the trend is clear before you know it, the distinction between tools that are powerful enough for professional development teams and to be simple enough for citizen developers.

[...] Before heading, let's identify the distinct functions of low code and no code in app development, by bifurcating them.

[...] Low Code: Low code is a development move that automates time-consuming manual processes, without manual coding, using a visual IDE environment, which is automation that connects to backends, and application management system.

No code: In the same way as low-code platforms, no code platform uses a visual application system that allows users to create applications without coding. Usually this includes drag and drop functions. An example of this is Salesforce CRM, which enables people with coding skills to code, and those who don't have those skills can build simple apps without using the system.

[...] Artificial intelligence (AI) is soon to be the most disruptive. Some providers are already integrating AI into their Low-Code / No-Code platforms for various purposes. For example, AI can help address the most complex challenges of integrating with semi-structured and unstructured data sources.

[...] Not only do several IT people fear their jobs, but the Low-Code / No-Code also threatens their credibility.

Originally spotted on The Eponymous Pickle.


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @01:41AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @01:41AM (#977082)

    It's just marketing drivel.

    Folks have been blathering on about this for decades [wikipedia.org]:

    Though not given a specific name until June 9, 2014,[2] by the industry analyst Forrester Research [wikipedia.org], the low-code development platform market traces back to 2011.[3]

    LCDPs trace their roots back to fourth-generation programming language [wikipedia.org] and rapid application development [wikipedia.org] tools of the 1990s and early 2000s. Similar to these predecessor development environments, LCDPs are based on the principles of model-driven design, automatic code generation, and visual programming.[4] The concept of end-user development [wikipedia.org] also existed previously, although LCDPs brought some new ways of approaching this development.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @02:38AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @02:38AM (#977089)

    At my work we call it "pretty picture programming". The idiots-in-charge drank the cool-aid, so where before we had a system that required one-person occasional maintenance we now have two people full time on trying to make this nonsense do what we want.

    Pretty Picture Programming - makes simple things possible (TM)

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Monday March 30 2020, @03:31AM

      by Bot (3902) on Monday March 30 2020, @03:31AM (#977097) Journal

      Yes, RAD is rapid until you want to do what the framework doesn't provide or provides after too many configuration options. BUT there is a definite class of problems that today are tackled with fucking excel sheets which might be solved better with RAD tools.

      RAD done right should include programmability though. Some tools built on pharo or web2py might approach RAD.

      Programmability would be also great on phones, we had it with the nokia, hell we had better customizability with the newton...

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by driverless on Monday March 30 2020, @05:44AM

    by driverless (4770) on Monday March 30 2020, @05:44AM (#977118)

    Even longer than that, it's been going on since the dawn of time computing-wise with things like AUTOCODE in the 1950s. This nonsense crops up every 12-18 months, whenever someone pushing some new product gets the attention of an IT journalist.

  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday March 30 2020, @01:08PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday March 30 2020, @01:08PM (#977183)

    My 1989 Masters' Thesis was built around a "visual programming system" where processing blocks were attached to each other graphically (using an off-the-shelf CAD system for electrical design.) Half-way through writing it, I stumbled on Hypercard and LabView... thorough research was harder to do back then, I recall driving 100+ miles to "nearby" libraries that had more complete collections of trade journals than my local one.

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