I have been a software engineer for a long time, C++ for the first half, and web development for the second. Recently I took a job as a contract developer for a

I have been a software engineer for a long time, C++ for the first half, and web development for the second. Recently I took a job as a contract developer for a large no code company. I had no idea what to expect and thought I was going to be limited to creating toy UI apps. I have been blown away at what I can accomplish in this platform. Virtually anything that can be done by a software engineer via languages like PHP (with some very definite exceptions / limits of course), Javascript, etc. can be done via the no code platform. Integrating with virtually any API takes seconds and they dont have to be pre built, I can essentially take any open api endpoint and get and send data to in in a minute (after I understand the API parameters, etc.) SSO integration, Parsing JSONS, complex data filtering, database queries, creating forms, saving data, creating work flow processes, relatively complex server side calculations, you name it, it can be done. It allows for the use of excel and lodash functions as well against data although that is pushing the "No Code" concept, Essentially anything I have done in my prior web development work, I can do on this platform. Some things take a little figuring out and there are some lengthy chaining of components but it works. No code is not a toy anymore, it is a legit technology and while it definitely takes some engineer level thinking sometimes, it very much works.