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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: 5, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday March 30 2020, @07:29AM (2 children)

    by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Monday March 30 2020, @07:29AM (#977132) Journal

    I never accepted mental shift of emerged late IT culture from programmers to developers.

    It is a cultural diversion.

    I repeat that: it is a cultural diversion, by non-programmers, purpose of which is to prevent people en masse from actually learning how to code, how to code perfectly and how to code complex problems perfectly.

    It all started with introduction of high languages and with separation of programmers from the machine internals (consider, what a phone is today: a black box).
    The result of this policy at historical scale is clearly visible: we have no perfect code now. And effects of imperfect code leak into other sectors of human society badly.
    If this keeps proceeding, we will end with no possibility to solve complex problems at all and self-destruction of human civilization by bad software.
    A 3 years old guy with box of fancy cubes is not a developer. He just sits in a stage of learning some kind of manipulation.
    This is exactly the same stage with No-code paradigm: A manipulation with pre-made structures. A mental freeze in a toy stage is not the progress, it is regress.

    In old times, we had four castes of programers, reflected as a work position too:
    Programmer, Unassisted Programmer, Programmer-Analyst, System Programmer.
    None of us was a developper.

    A real programmer must understand the machine completely first, only then she can start programming perfectly in any language.
    Do not fall into ideology of funny abstractions, the real world is bloody materialist.
    Know your machine.

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  • (Score: 2) by deimtee on Monday March 30 2020, @12:43PM

    by deimtee (3272) on Monday March 30 2020, @12:43PM (#977178) Journal

    I repeat that: it is a cultural diversion, by non-programmers, purpose of which is to prevent people en masse from actually learning how to code, how to code perfectly and how to code complex problems perfectly.

    I have known many people who have tried to learn to code, some of whom I would have said were very smart, who just simply couldn't do it. Others who anyone would agree were not as smart, coded all day long. It's like there is an innate talent that people either have or don't have.
    Being smart helps you be a better coder, working hard at it helps you be a better coder, but if the talent is not there you simply won't code.

    Also, over 18 years old and still relevant. http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20011121 [userfriendly.org]

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Monday March 30 2020, @01:26PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday March 30 2020, @01:26PM (#977190)

    Perfection requires simplicity - customers rarely request simplicity, not really. What customers request is what they already have, plus... on a short timetable with limited development budget, can you do it?

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