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Low code is definitely the future. Look at all the things you can do by calling the right APIs and/or all the scaffolding available. The clear trend changed aft
by lalos 7y ago
Low code is definitely the future. Look at all the things you can do by calling the right APIs and/or all the scaffolding available. The clear trend changed after RoR and managed cloud services like Heroku popped up. Now the big players offer cloud services that would take months to code but if you pay up you have access (everything as a service). The lesson for developers is work on tools consumed by other developers and if this is not the case probably someone else is working on automating bits of pieces of your work.
- tguedes 7y agoThis has literally always been the case for the history of software. Unless you're willing to tell me an operating system is a low-code solution, building software has always been about obfuscating the frustrating parts to focus on the stuff that actually matters. Infrastructure as a service is just the current iteration.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> This has literally always been the case for the history of software. And the code complexity doesn't actually go down; as it takes less code to meet a given set of expectations, expectations expand.
- aries1980 7y agoLow code means low expectations. Coding is not the hard part, but to satisfy the end-user or regulatory needs with the positive (or at least minimal negative) impact on the user experience. Complications arise when you think on "what can go wrong" (e.g. you lost a webhook going to your CRM and you want to understand why it happened, how it impacted the user, how can you recover automatically) and start mitigating them.