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Good low-code tools would be great. But you are still going to need software developers to operate them. The biggest job of software development is not just co
by andix 5y ago
Good low-code tools would be great. But you are still going to need software developers to operate them.
The biggest job of software development is not just coding stuff, it is identifying the problem to solve and engineering a solution. Define a data model, think about which data is needed where, what can be done and so on. And then: properly test it! Develop tests, that confirm your stuff is actually working and safe.
Non-technical people most of the time are not able to come up with working solutions. And they never manage to properly test their software. As a reference check all those horrible Excel/VBA sheets. They are useful, but also a source of a lot of problems.
- okareaman 5y agoI didn't read the article as saying low code was going to replace programmers. Or maybe I just assumed it, because there is going to be an ever increasing need for programmers. Low code is a good way to off-load some of the tasks and spread the work out.
- andix 5y agoI understood it in the way, that in the future non technical end users will create their own software. And I doubt that.
- nix23 5y ago>Non-technical people most of the time are not able to come up with working solutions. And this is where you are terribly wrong, i have seen excel-sheets with the complexity of an operating-system and they are in use for 10+ years, and yes they have well-known bug but you can work around that...really like a real OS, made by accountants etc. Well one could argue that accountants are technical (number-wise)