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tempacct3575
5y ago
Yeah, text transforms are a bit of a nightmare in almost every platform. Most low code platforms have an expression or macro/function editor that would be used to deal with those - it's also ugly there. For my team, we usually c
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I work at a large healthcare equipment manufacturer - the group I worked with automated many business processes relating to equipment field sales, service, and maintenance. The end users were generally internal sales or field techs. Most o
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5y ago
UML did fail as a modeling tool - it was just too complex. However, flowcharts have succeeded on many platforms in many domains. (Gaming engines like Godot Visual Script and Unreal Engine Blueprints, BPM tools, Enterprise Integration tools
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> I just don't buy the argument that visual programming tools are inherently more creative or imaginative than text-based programming tools because at some point, you are going to be constrained to the UI, which always comes with tr
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The main reason I despise it is that the term is often used to imply that there is "no technical debt" or "no maintenance costs" or that this is "not real programming". In reality, users are still creating sof
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I've worked with several of these tools: Power Platform, Mendix, and Outsystems. I despise the terms no code-and low-code. A better term is "visual programming" (as an alternative to text based programming). You should stil