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No-Code won't and can't replace coding 100%, but it'll take a huge chunk. 1. Websites For instance, in the US most houses look the same, so having the same we

No-Code won't and can't replace coding 100%, but it'll take a huge chunk. 1. Websites For instance, in the US most houses look the same, so having the same website isn't a big deal. 2. Apps Most no-code apps also are a bunch templates, which non-developers will adapt even if it's sub-standard. Think of spreadsheets, to us (devs) non-devs make terrible ones. Yet, many businesses run in Word and Excel. 3. Custom Development Enterprise software development is too expensive and slow. Starting with the specialized knowledge transfers. For instance, it's unreal that a graphic designer and/or a developer can learn the ins and outs of a business. And instead of accepting that, we just say "requirements change" so planning doesn't matter. Which is our license to avoid understanding what we are developing. Therefore, many businesses are fed up of developers, so any hope of not dealing with devs is appealing, e.g. that's why ERPs cost so much upfront. Now, they're fed up of ERPs as well. So no-code or low-code are appealing to domain-experts. They are smart and they're adapting canned solutions.

hyperman1 4y ago
No-code apps are popping up left and right in my company(OutSystems). They universally suck. Performance is horrible. UI is horrible. Development is actually slower than it used to be. We are hiring no-code devs which are more expensive than other devs because they are hot on the market. non-devs can't no-code just like they can't code, who would have thought. The no-code tooling is so primitive, every kind of troubleshooting takes forever, besides it requires access that normal people can't have as they would torpedo the no-code of other people's teams. It turns out coding was never the problem. Troubleshooting is. Analysis is. Integration is. Consensus building is. Repeatable testing is. Long term maintenance is. Just typing out the code is the fastest part of development, and it makes no sense to optimize it if you don't address the real time eaters. Basically, the core lessons we got from the 1980's still apply, and people are still throwing money to every snake oil salesman promising a silver bullet. This time it will work for real.
- efortis 4y ago
  Yep. No-code and ERP consultants charge more than Sr. devs. On paper it’s a deal: 100X productivity for 1.5X the price. Not to mention security, hacking them is easier than ever. Eg POLA nah BTW, I’m developing a no-code, no-graphic design platform for prototyping technical apps. So I’m convinced it’s possible to make something useful for them. But not if they are database-first, like of all the no code platforms I’ve seen (MS Access, or query browser like)

hyperman1 4y ago

No-code apps are popping up left and right in my company(OutSystems). They universally suck. Performance is horrible. UI is horrible. Development is actually slower than it used to be. We are hiring no-code devs which are more expensive than other devs because they are hot on the market. non-devs can't no-code just like they can't code, who would have thought. The no-code tooling is so primitive, every kind of troubleshooting takes forever, besides it requires access that normal people can't have as they would torpedo the no-code of other people's teams. It turns out coding was never the problem. Troubleshooting is. Analysis is. Integration is. Consensus building is. Repeatable testing is. Long term maintenance is. Just typing out the code is the fastest part of development, and it makes no sense to optimize it if you don't address the real time eaters. Basically, the core lessons we got from the 1980's still apply, and people are still throwing money to every snake oil salesman promising a silver bullet. This time it will work for real.

efortis 4y ago
Yep. No-code and ERP consultants charge more than Sr. devs. On paper it’s a deal: 100X productivity for 1.5X the price. Not to mention security, hacking them is easier than ever. Eg POLA nah BTW, I’m developing a no-code, no-graphic design platform for prototyping technical apps. So I’m convinced it’s possible to make something useful for them. But not if they are database-first, like of all the no code platforms I’ve seen (MS Access, or query browser like)