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Others have covered much of this but the biggest issues I've run into with low code solutions are: - Lack of good versioning / source control - Poor support f
by mattnewport 4y ago
Others have covered much of this but the biggest issues I've run into with low code solutions are:
- Lack of good versioning / source control
- Poor support for 'schema changes' / data migrations
- Running into limitations that prevent you doing something you really need to do and not offering a good 'escape hatch' to extend with custom code
- Poor / missing support for testing and things like staging / production environments
- Lack of support for 'metadata' - things like comments, commit messages, seeing who changed what and when, especially when multiple people get involved (this is maybe another way of saying 'version control')
- Pricing plans that make it very expensive when you cross certain usage thresholds or require certain features, or simply hard limits on usage that you run into and are hard to work around
- Vendor lock in and difficulty hiring/training people to maintain and extend the solutions.
All this is not to say that some of these tools don't have value, we still use some, but over time these limitations become greater relative to the benefits you see early on in terms of ease of use and speed getting something basic up and running.