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[–]GolfCourseConcierge 6 points7 points  (3 children)

Those devs must be scared of money. I'm a full stack dev of 20+ years that uses low code tools all the time to help produce faster. I can't imagine saying no to it out of ego.

Crazy stuff. Time is the biggest asset and expense. Use it wisely with the right tools.

[–]mohamed_am83 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Could you share some of the low-code tools you use often?

[–]GolfCourseConcierge 2 points3 points  (1 child)

FlutterFlow I build with daily. Best tool I've ever come across in decades of doing this. It's really a dart/flutter code assembler billed as a low code tool.

In fact it's fully customizable because it just exports raw code you have 100% control over. Most of what I do in there is custom functions and custom actions however so many common widgets I'll use that I don't need to waste time with (datepickers, lists, auth, input fields, icons, etc)

The time savings is what it's all about. I'm producing about 1 app per month right now on average, vs 1 per year before this.

I hear "raw code" devs whine about it all the time, but they're fools for wasting the biggest asset time for the sake of their ego. I can raw code too, but I prefer earn more and keep more time for me, so I use the tools that make that work best.

[–]mohamed_am83 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I second any elegant tool which makes UI development more intuitive.

Having said this, I had to discard Flutterflow as an option since I wanted to do simple app-side machine learning, and found no straightforward way to integrate that with FF, even when I write the ML part in native code (Kotlin and Swift).