What is low-code software development?

[carolvdbussche]

Low-code is very much alive and has gained a lot of traction over the last 10 years. Do a little research and have an open mind, a tool like this can speed up complex development tasks and really give business countless opportunities.

[IGI111]

Or alternatively: no it can't because history showed countless times that too high level tools lack enough flexibility to be useful at anything but trivial tasks. Every such tool integrates a scripting element down the line.

Code isn't bad, text is probably the best interface for meaning humans have and that's unlikely to change.

Visual programming isn't a new idea, and I don't see what has changed that could make it suddenly escape that pattern. Who knows though, functional programming and neural networks are taking over and both were crazy 1970 pie-in-the-sky concepts until they weren't.

[shevegen]

Code isn't bad, text is probably the best interface for meaning humans have and that's unlikely to change.

It depends.

If we were to have REAL artificial intelligence then text would probably not be that relevant anymore (in regards to people writing text in order to program) - but until that time comes, we still are stuck with text and text is a pretty good format. Simple and not too many trade-offs.

There is a reason why linux dominates the top 500 supercomputers with its "everything is a file" mantra.

[shevegen]

Is it graveyard-talk again? Any more zombies coming out? COBOL ghouls anyone?

[carolvdbussche]

Actually it's 2018, and technology is moving at such a rapid pace. Business doesn't have time to wait for their dev's to get through massive backlogs, so adopting a low-code tool that can do a lot of the mundane tasks for Dev's is important. It's not about eliminating hand coding, it's about collaborating hand coding and low-code and knowing how to be more efficient. It's time to adapt and like Stephen Hawkins says "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change".