The "No code"/"Low code" industry will always be "Inner-Platform Effect as a Service". They reflect whatever programming language they themselves were built in,

The "No code"/"Low code" industry will always be "Inner-Platform Effect as a Service". They reflect whatever programming language they themselves were built in, but dumber, worse, and harder to program in. The sweet spot is of course demos for PHBs. The allure of inner-platform effect in almost every case has always been that drive towards "we can save money by not hiring actual programmers". It is a delicious vision for business people that remains forever ironically unaware of the "law" that is a direct corollary for the inner-platform effect: any sufficiently advanced configuration is indistinguishable from programming. The perceived "advantage" of "No Code"/"Low Code" is increased ability by companies to "move fast and break stuff" with process testing or data visualization or "one-off" tools. The true "advantage" of "No Code"/"Low Code" tools is how well they shift tasks from senior developers to more junior developers and/or business users that want to try amateur/semi-pro programming without the requisite bump in salary. But if you are going to need a senior developer to come in and properly productionize it anyway how much are you really saving? How much are you instead over-expending on "ejection" and rework and rewrites that might have been avoided just going to more senior development staff in the first place? (How much of the senior developer anguish could be avoided by realizing that "move fast and break things" includes accidentally breaking senior developer morale every time they are handed some strange "Low Code" thing from business people playing amateur coding adventure hour and throw it over the wall with "we need it in production stat; it's mostly done so should only take a few hours, right?")