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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @12:53PM (1 child)
If they didn't bid cheap and lie, it might be okay.. but that is all system/software sales, these days, so.. you get what you pay for (plus Change Requests!)
Microsoft should be all of the evidence anyone ever needs that in the tech industry, or capitalism in general, the ability to sell dramatically outweighs the importance of quality or efficiency.
Sprinkled through discussions like this one there are typically software engineers lamenting the use of bad tools and wasted computer resources. They will rail against Electron, and heavyweight Single Page Applications, and programming languages with high memory overhead like Python or Ruby relative to hyper efficient options like C and Assembly. But the problem isn't engineers using those tools, or their managers. The problem is an industry where a bloated pile of trash like a bad Electron application plus a skilled marketing campaign will sell while something a hundred times as efficient and economical with a less skilled marketing campaign won't.
So yeah, the situation sucks. And the core problem is capitalism.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Wednesday April 01 2020, @02:06AM
I rail against insecure options like C and Assembly relative to programming languages like Python and Ruby and Lisp and Algol 68 and Modula 3 and ...