[HN Gopher] I'm skeptical of low-code
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       I'm skeptical of low-code
        
       Author : jamghee
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2023-12-30 15:51 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | bazil376 wrote:
       | This to me is true for low code tools that are aimed at non-
       | developers. "You can write software without software developers!"
       | But low code tools made specifically to help developers'
       | workflows can be great. Maybe would be good for OP to clarify
       | type of low code tools
        
       | j45 wrote:
       | Less-code might be more realistic than low or no code. Hard not
       | to have platform lockin with zero or low code.
       | 
       | As the other comment said, less code tools for developers can be
       | quite helpful.
        
       | ralusek wrote:
       | Code is a way of explaining rules. If you have a lot of
       | complicated rules, whatever system you use to represent it is
       | going to be complicated. Best case scenario for low code is when
       | the rules are simple or very predictable. In my experience, this
       | is very rarely the case, no matter how simple a problem seems
       | from the outset
        
       | kkfx wrote:
       | IMVHO the "low code" environment have a name: end-user
       | programming. The thing the entire entire industry have done it's
       | best to destroy it after Xerox, Symbolics.
       | 
       | The rest is the nth failed tentative to makes users jailed by
       | ignorance selling the idea people can do thing without knowing
       | things. It will fail like any other tentative done before.
        
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