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What's the difference between no/low-code and just an application? Most of these just seem like a solidly built application that allows users to do complex thin
by gilbetron 5y ago
What's the difference between no/low-code and just an application? Most of these just seem like a solidly built application that allows users to do complex things. MS Word is a no-code application to generate documents, Photoshop is a no-code application to generate images, Chrome is a no-code application to explore the web.
"no-code" just seems like a marketing term.
- rattlesnakedave 5y agoNo-code platforms allow one to create applications via a GUI or similar. Word, Photoshop, Chrome are all applications. No-code applications like bubble allow users to define workflows graphically, and then execute them later as a part of an application. Hopefully that makes sense. I think the key bits here are "it's being built through a GUI" and "you are building an application that will be executed later."
- patrickthebold 5y agoI think it's more or less continuous from data -> application -> no/low code -> programming languages. Where you get more flexibility at each step. E.g if I want to crop a photo I'm not going to do it in Java even though Java gives me all the power to do that and more. And of course LaTeX is Turing complete so I could mine bitcoins with a document. So in one sense it is arbitrary but in another the marketing is useful to give some idea of how much power/flexibility the application will allow. I think you can argue Excel is a low-code application.
- hnbad 5y agoAs far as I can tell, "no code" just means you can create automation workflows with a visual editor, "low code" means you have some extension points that support scripting. The terms only make sense in the context of automation I think.