> No-code or low-code still means you're creating software, even if you're using a drag-and-drop UI to do so. And if you're building software, you're going to want things like version control, environments, code review, etc. Unfortunately, most of these tools have zero ability to do these things, or have really half-baked imitations of them, and as a result the apps you've built in no-code/low-code are unable to scale as your company grows.
This.
A phrase that captures this sentiment is that no-code and low-code is "Duck Programming:" It may be marketed as being not-programming, but if it walks like programming and swims like programming and quacks like programming, it's programming. And the code itself is just part of the practice of programming:
This.
A phrase that captures this sentiment is that no-code and low-code is "Duck Programming:" It may be marketed as being not-programming, but if it walks like programming and swims like programming and quacks like programming, it's programming. And the code itself is just part of the practice of programming:
https://raganwald.com/2012/01/08/duck-programming.html
HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3442419
(The original submission was on a now-defunct site, the link above is current.)