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Have they ever addressed what would happened to the app you build if their company disappear one day? It doesn't seem safe to build your system on Bubble or any SaaS for that matter unless you know the company will never go away e.g. Salesforce.
Budibase, Baserow, Appsmith, Saltcorn (shameless plug).
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People (especially the kind that hangs out in HN) dont seem to understand that there’s a vast ocean of fairly smart people, much smarter than the average (or even above average) programmer, who are unable to build what they can imagine because of the coding bottleneck. I know many, and it’s not for a lack of significant effort that they are not able to learn to code in a way that’s meaningful. I suppose there’s somet…
In life sciences the people are smarter than any developer but software is IT-captured so all they can work with is Excel. No code is meant for these people. Software developers will never deliver what life sciences needs without no code.
Can someone help me understand the no-code movement and what supposedly has changed in the last few years? I know Microsoft tried to allow non-developers to create apps without developers, and they have been trying for decades. But failed! They built an app that allowed you to drag and drop blocks, and they tried a visual query builder(not sure what the exact name was) for SQL. They added a workflow builder to ShareP…
First of all, no-code tools are not intended for developers. Although, developers can and do benefit from them by using them occasionally for prototyping and mundane automations. The main beneficiaries of no-code tools are "citizen developers" - people who get paid for something else than software development (e.g. marketing analysts, accountants, lawyers, etc) but who need/want to automate things to be more productive in their main work. For them, no-code is a godsend. It's like not having hands and asking someone else to do something for your with their hands all your life, and then suddenly getting your own pair of hands. No-code is a super-power to them because now they can do things they need but couldn't do earlier. For instance, querying databases without knowing SQL, pulling data from web APIs without having a clue about HTTP, or renaming a thousand of files in a loop. No-code is not about doing everything. No-code is about being able to do something, because previously its target audience could do nothing. Remember that excitement when you wrote your first Hello World program and it worked? This is exactly how "citizen developers" feel about no-code.
Second, no-code is not a replacement for general-purpose computing and never meant to be. There is only a limited set of tasks, that can be efficiently automated using no-code and high-level abstractions - ETL, file/folder manipulations, RPA, certain things from gamedev and ML, and maybe robotics. However, these tasks are very common and no-code saves a lot of time and money for them.
Third, no-code creates a new class of people that can do programming, because no-code is programming. It just uses higher-level abstractions and can be imperative, declarative, or functional. This class of programming is here to stay because it works.
I'll stop here because I can talk about no-code for hours :)
Can someone help me understand the no-code movement and what supposedly has changed in the last few years? I know Microsoft tried to allow non-developers to create apps without developers, and they have been trying for decades. But failed! They built an app that allowed you to drag and drop blocks, and they tried a visual query builder(not sure what the exact name was) for SQL. They added a workflow builder to ShareP…
Have they ever addressed what would happened to the app you build if their company disappear one day? It doesn't seem safe to build your system on Bubble or any SaaS for that matter unless you know the company will never go away e.g. Salesforce.
Yes, the solution is open-source no-code that can be self hosted: Budibase, Baserow, Appsmith, Saltcorn (shameless plug).
So those who can't code are then expected to self-host?
The lock-in is clearly a part of the business model.
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People (especially the kind that hangs out in HN) dont seem to understand that there’s a vast ocean of fairly smart people, much smarter than the average (or even above average) programmer, who are unable to build what they can imagine because of the coding bottleneck. I know many, and it’s not for a lack of significant effort that they are not able to learn to code in a way that’s meaningful. I suppose there’s somet…
In life sciences the people are smarter than any developer but software is IT-captured so all they can work with is Excel. No code is meant for these people. Software developers will never deliver what life sciences needs without no code.
More, they weren't even aware that these things could be improved. So no, I'm not convinced life science is intrinsically harder or the people there smarter. I attended some biochem and genetics classes at uni and once you have the foundations the concepts are actually pretty simple, there's just a lot of new terminology and random facts to memorize.
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I have seen simple things in Open Source Programs that I know I could track down and fix. Off by one errors, modulus stuff and such. Do open source projects have an obvious "run this script to configure your complete dev environment in respect to this project" ? I would be happy to spin up a new VM for every project on that basis.
What I'm talking about is a solution for people who don't even want to know what a "script" or a "VM" is. Allowing them to learn and write only what they would actually need to care about: code.
Sounds pretty ridiculous, doesn't it? Why is it that people think that all this computery stuff like syntax and semantics, compilers, and operating systems is superfluous fluff invented by programmers to gatekeep their profession, instead of tools we created to actually do our job?
I wish we had No-business solutions. Like you only have to write code and the business side of things is being solved for you by a script, just watch money flow into your account.