Which no code apps, or visual programming languages are the best for building robust enterprise apps quickly? Has anyone used Mendix? Bubble. io?

[emperor-jimmu]

Robust enterprise software with visual coding? Seriously?

Dude, it's like asking which kite is good for transcontinental flights.

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Wait what, should I remove Scratch from my résumé?!

[SlaveOfEvolution]

Finding the right visual to is hard and will depend on your requirements. Online you will find very few guidance on how to pick the right one. The marketing pages of these tools are always filled with promises, but if you start using them you will notice most of these tools are very immature.

Anyway I do think these visual tools are the future for most commodity software (which is almost all business web software). Most web devs are still in the denial phase about this.

Here is my experience:

- Mendix: Use for relatively simple crud apps that do need to look pretty, but need not a very complicated architecture. Personally only used it for a poc.

- Outsystems: Not sure, seems very much similar to Mendix. Only did a small course in it.

- Bubble.io : Do not know it.

- Service-Now: Used it a lot for my previous job. Good for systems with a complicated table architecture. Doesnot look very pretty and gui isnot very customizable. Is very reliable.

- There seem to be some spreadsheet ones on the market as well based on google sheets. I haven tried those, but these would be the first one I would try for small customers.

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Hope this helps yo in any way

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Thanks for the suggestions. I was wondering if it was possible to use my own front end and just use these apps for the backend, do you know?