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Low code tools are fantastic for people with unambitious software goals (not to be confused with unambitious company goals). A lot of burden is lifted off of th
by jstummbillig 2y ago
Low code tools are fantastic for people with unambitious software goals (not to be confused with unambitious company goals). A lot of burden is lifted off of the tool builder, simply, because there is so much stuff that has been decided for you and therefore a lot of things you can not do.
But you have to really accept this limitation as a feature, just like you need to accept that inventing pieces or moves is not an option when you get frustrated during a match of chess. As soon as you fall into the coder mindset of "If only I could go one level down", you immediately switch into having 0 upside while having all of the downside. You fight the tool and then there's a ton of things that would in fact be simpler if you just wrote it starting from the correct level.
I would argue, just as with coding, this is mostly a matter of discipline. Having boundaries is part of the real world problem solving. Being able to work within them is a skill.