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There's a new big trend in tools for enterprize(and a bit of consumer) web dev, called low-code/no-code. those tools offer that level of automation, plus much l
by petra 9y ago
There's a new big trend in tools for enterprize(and a bit of consumer) web dev, called low-code/no-code. those tools offer that level of automation, plus much lower barriers to implementation(mostly via visual interfaces), and it seems (but i may be wrong), that they can be used to built complex systems(often by software guys, complexity reduction and order is still important).
But those are almost never mentioned in hacker news, which may say something about our community more than it says something about the possibility of building such tools.
- davidjnelson 9y agoOh cool, do you know the names of them?
- petra 9y agohttps://www.pcmag.com/roundup/353252/the-best-low-code-development-platforms https://www.pcmag.com/roundup/353252/the-best-low-code-devel...
- lozenge 9y agoI think I worked with one of those, the pre-C# version of Metastorm BPM (business process management). It was like JIRAs workflow feature with more flexibility - permissions on who edits which fields when, and transitions could be triggered by a button or external event. It modelled a lot of business processes well and let you pre define searches and views for specific job roles. You laid out forms with WYSIWYG. The main downside was the programming language - for an if/else statement, condition and both blocks all had to be on a single line. Variables and functions could be referenced in double-quoted strings meaning the syntax highlighting was always wrong. And there was no chance of loops or user defined functions. This meant code editing was done with repetitive clicking in the IDE. The other downside was inability to diff or branch. It kept a history of deployed versions and that was it.