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I've seen designers build pretty good websites without touching code.
by threatofrain 3y ago
I've seen designers build pretty good websites without touching code.
- sarchertech 3y agoMy mom was building pretty good websites in dreamweaver nearly 25 years ago without touching code. As soon as something went wrong though—watch out.
- RajT88 3y agoExactly the problem with low code tools. As soon as you have a small deviation from the framework (be it an issue or just a wonky requirement) you are stuck.
- michaelteter 3y agoAnd we face situations like this all the time as developers building full-code solutions. We get stuck because the PoC which went into production can't scale, and we buckle down and build an appropriate V2. You're essentially arguing that MVPs are a bad idea, but evidence suggests the contrary.
- RajT88 3y ago> You're essentially arguing that MVPs are a bad idea Except I am not arguing that at all! I am arguing that there are reasons low/no code tools have not been more successful.
- wizofaus 3y agoI'd certainly suggest building an MVP with a low-code platform isn't a good use of resources unless your actual devs are all flat out doing other stuff and there are spare resources on the product team capable of putting something together with such a tool.
- hinkley 3y agoV2 is often a surprise to management and many of us have a lot of scar tissue originating from these sagas. We are not eager for more repeats. Sunk cost fallacy begets cheapness, not frugality.
- hinkley 3y agoI would say “code generator” here but there’s only been one domain where I’ve seen respectable code being generated and that’s CSS. before SCSS and Less I’d never met one that didn’t horrify or even terrify me. Haven’t met many since, either. But in theory a code generator could be evacuated to version control and forked. Of course you have no commit history, which impoverishes the value of the code, but you have something.