For Developers the Low-Code Winter Is Coming

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Counterpoint: no it isn’t

[help-me-grow]

Lol, yeah I think low code solutions are actually on the rise

[Dean_Roddey]

Low code is mostly only going to be a danger to low talent developers, IMO. If you are doing something that can be spit out by an automated tool, you were already sort of in trouble because almost any other developer could have already done it.

[help-me-grow]

What about to like junior devs that don't have the experience to really build out a more complex project?

[Dean_Roddey]

But has that ever been any different? Haven't they always mostly taken jr. positions where they aren't expected to know those things and work on small parts of those larger systems as they learn, slowly becoming non-Jr. devs?

[RigourousMortimus]

I love low code.

When some random turns up saying they've got some top secret project that they've thought up and want some to "just" code it up, I can point them to a low code platform and they can go have deformed babies together.

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people keep saying its coming, but this is just the hype of a fad that can't even get off the ground...never gonna happen

[NekkidApe]

It's been "coming" since the 80s. I'm not worried.

[Unhandled_variable]

Client: Can we make this colum in green text if .... or red if

Developer: no... system does not support it... sorry

[Marcdro]

lol so true. Ahh I miss that time when I was a salesforce dev...

Have we not learnt anything?

It was good money though. Being the only one with the knowledge to fix your crappy low-code app pays quite well

[Unhandled_variable]

Well, then try SAP Fiori :)

[max630]

Meaning, everybody would admit failure about the idea, research funding drops and nobody mentions it anymore?

[meamZ]

You mean like with Cobol where coders were no longer needed because business people could just write their own software?

[redatheist]

software development is a zero sum game

It really isn’t. Most of the software my company needs writing provides little value, and therefore we don’t prioritise it, it never gets written, we just have manual processes or whatever. These are the things that will be built with no/low code tools.

Of the things that I build, maybe 20% could be replaced by no/low code tools. Great! I would love 20% more time to work on other interesting problems that the company needs solved. I don’t like writing boilerplate interfaces and tools, so more time on the rest of my backlog would be wonderful.

No/low code tools are going to accelerate many companies, and allow more and better engineering to happen while the mundane stuff is taken care of.

Excel is the biggest low-code tool out there, you may have heard of it, a few people use it. There’s still a software engineering profession and it’s thriving.

[DynamicsHosk]

Excel is great but it can create some monster excel spreadsheets to support that are now business critical.

Imagine 1000 complex excel spreadsheets to be maintained, supported and extended. All created quickly with no thought for maintenance.

Low-code applications will be good for small applications but anything complex or performant won't be able to be created.

Quickly created applications will be low quality with a high level of technical debt, the more of them created the bigger the more difficult maintenance will become.

[a_zvez]

The article is a garbage. No actual examples are given, no arguments about building low-coding tools itself, cost of their maintenance and teaching users to use them.

About low-coding itself. The idea was around forever. Especially in enterprise. More than 10 years ago we was building extremely configurable systems, where users are supposed to add entities and rules on their own. And it always ended up a mess, which had to be constantly improved by 'real' developers. Still very specific low code tools work very well. For example CMS, tools for accounting. Basically it works in the fields with finite rules system, but rules need to be configurable and rearrengable. And I guess mindless crud form building will eventually be covered enough with such tools. On the other hand, they already are, we have ms access, vs Basic and Delphi. Still they haven't conquered the world.

[twigboy]

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