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Sounds like you're worried about what happens if you embed and tightly couple a lot of your business logic to something you don't have full control over? That's
by blowski 5y ago
Sounds like you're worried about what happens if you embed and tightly couple a lot of your business logic to something you don't have full control over? That's a totally valid concern, and probably one of the reasons we've tended to move away from these tools and towards doing everything in stable programming languages.
It's a classic set of trade-offs - quality, features, stability, security, price. There are lots of solutions on the market offering one configuration of those trade-offs.
If it existed today, some people would push for HyperCard to support mobile apps, multi-user access, web-based and native apps, all of which would make the solution 'worse" for others.
- danielheath 5y agoThere’s nothing inherent about low-code that requires it to be tied to hosting provided by a specific entity which can unilaterally terminate it.
- blowski 5y agoI agree in theory, although it makes me wonder why - according to this discussion at least - it hasn’t happened in practise.
- danielheath 5y agoIt’s a great undertaking to do it well. Hard to do without getting paid, and if it’s for profit you want SAAS since that means recurring revenue.