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> (I kind of hate Alteryx at my company but it's not the software's fault, it's the company being stingy with licenses which makes people's workflows harder to
by thr0wawayf00 5y ago
> (I kind of hate Alteryx at my company but it's not the software's fault, it's the company being stingy with licenses which makes people's workflows harder to learn about)
This brings up a great counter-argument to visual programming tools, which is vendor lock-in. We talk about this a lot on the cloud architecture side, but surely this also becomes a concern if a commercial visual programming tool becomes an integral part of one's core business domain. And if the solution to this problem is some sort exportable code, then what's the point?
- civilized 5y agoI could be OK with it if it exported some crappy machine-generated SQL, which lots of other tools can do. But yes, when you use these tools you're at the mercy of the vendor and their willingness to play well with others. From a purely selfish perspective Alteryx is a disaster for me because I often need to see inside business process and Alteryx obstructs this more than other tools. But users swear by it so I have to grudgingly admit it's a "good" tool.