Curious how much developers trust (or appreciate) low-code platforms? This can be in relation to speed to market, quality, app complexity, etc.
Investors and Technologists are always chasing after solutions that will drop the barrier between hard tech things and "normal" people. Think wix, squarespace, salesforce, etc.
...But the uncomfortable truth is that code isn't that barrier. Most Devs lego-piece projects together from open source repos that are fairly easy to configure and use IDEs that code-complete A TON of our work for us. The hard part isn't the code, it is the way that we approach problem solving, the way that we put projects together... its the way that we think about "hard tech things". Low code doesn't make that part any easier.
So do I appreciate or trust low code platforms? Sort of... mainly because it gets people started in our world.
- can I export/import a plain text representation of my implementation and version control it?
- can I create separate environments dev/qa/UAT/staging/prod and automate pushing changes to the environment via the command line?
- Is there an “escape hatch”? When I get to the limits of what the platform can do, are there extension points?