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I completely agree with the assertion that it's easier to hire normal devs vs no-code devs. I used to work at a company building one of the bigger low-code pla
by mrsuprawsm 4y ago
I completely agree with the assertion that it's easier to hire normal devs vs no-code devs.
I used to work at a company building one of the bigger low-code platforms (Mendix).
Lots of our platform was "dogfooded", i.e. built in Mendix itself. Control plane apps, that kind of thing. This was a very bad idea for many reasons, but one major problem was hiring developers to work on it. There were simply very few competent specialized Mendix developers available on the market. The really good ones (that you wanted to hire) all became contractors earning >$150/hr. The other devs on the market were very junior.
The alternative was to train up our own regular developers to use our low-code platform. But that didn't work either, because your average Java/Python dev recognized that low-code was a career dead-end, and didn't want to learn it.