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Low-code and no-code ready for sophisticated application development? It depends
- errantmind 5y agoBased on my industry experience, a healthy minority of business analysts are learning to code (usually Python), and they tend to outperform their peers who limit themselves to Excel and the various low/no code approaches. (I've used several of these in the ETL space) I respect Excel and what it enables, but more often than not the end result is a jumbled piece of spaghetti that reaches a lower complexity limit than what can be achieved with more rigorous programming approach. I believe, eventually, most BAs will learn at least basic software development skills and principles. They'll be able to prototype their ideas themselves and then work with software engineers to fully implement them and scale them out
- qarx 5y agoBeing a software developer I find little joy in supporting complex applications that are built on a blackbox full of quirks that you need to learn and memorize. It's like a tech support job. What I can see happening is companies forcing the tech department to suddenly support all these new apps and for me that'd be quite the reason to quit