4 ms·

I had this same observation a few weeks ago. Salesforce has been pushing hard for orgs to migrate from their shotty programming language (apex) to their visual

by cjonas 2y ago

I had this same observation a few weeks ago. Salesforce has been pushing hard for orgs to migrate from their shotty programming language (apex) to their visual programming language (Flow). My observation was that apex is better positioned to take advantage of the future of AI programming tools due to being a simple Java based language with high level of abstraction. At some point this will flip the equation and it will be easier for non-coders to manage the code than the visual graphs. Salesforce is building AI tooling for their flow platform, but I don't think they will be competitive again the billions being invested in solving general programming / SDLC with AI

jerezzprime 2y ago
Do you have any insight into their motivation for the push for migration? Why not both?
- aaronbaugher 2y ago
  I work with Salesforce quite a bit, using both Apex and Flows depending on the situation. SF is a huge organization, with different people pulling different directions. So you have the no-code people who have been pushing for more drag-and-drop visual logic for years, and they're probably tighter with the marketing people. But you also have other divisions wanting to do more powerful stuff that doesn't fit into that, so Apex certainly isn't going away.