Huge corporations has wanted app-builder software for non-technical employees since the iron age of computing. It's been done, over and over and over, and is very well understood.
Excel is the most sauccessful one still in use today, back in the day MS Access was used for this and there have been many very ambitious attempts at applying Prolog, Lisp and SmallTalk to solve this problem.
SAP, Salesforce, e-commerce site builders and the like belongs to this software category, and while some are commercially successful none have managed to replace engineers. If they could, they'd immediately move into industrial manufacturing and solve the same problem there first.
Sure, invent your nice DSL and slap on a nice GUI editor and sell it, that's fine, but it will be very hard to convince professional software developers that this will make them obsolete.
Those tools only allow you to create relatively basic web sites.
And they can only serve a small percentage of the market.
Check out the tools I mentioned in the article and in the comments, those are extremely powerul, they allow you to connect different services, access databases, send automatic emails, automate flows, etc.
WordPress is used for all the tasks you mention and more, without hiring software engineers. It's also been exceptionally popular for this reason, and hence became a crippled COBOL of the Internet economy.
Claiming that WP "can only serve a small percentage of the market" either means you're refering to some niche market or know very little about this subject.
Yet building web sites was the example you chose, so WP, Wix, SquareSpace and so on are well known products you claim will be 'disrupted' by people like your employer. Salesforce, SAP and more as well, since they also offer GUI app editors.
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Huge corporations has wanted app-builder software for non-technical employees since the iron age of computing. It's been done, over and over and over, and is very well understood.
Excel is the most sauccessful one still in use today, back in the day MS Access was used for this and there have been many very ambitious attempts at applying Prolog, Lisp and SmallTalk to solve this problem.
SAP, Salesforce, e-commerce site builders and the like belongs to this software category, and while some are commercially successful none have managed to replace engineers. If they could, they'd immediately move into industrial manufacturing and solve the same problem there first.
Sure, invent your nice DSL and slap on a nice GUI editor and sell it, that's fine, but it will be very hard to convince professional software developers that this will make them obsolete.
Hi @cess11
No one will have to convince professional software developers to use No Code / Low Code tools.
Just like no had to convince Elevator Operators from the 50s to use Automated Elevators.
I'm not saying that Windows 12 will be created with No Code / Low Code technologies.
But a signficant percentage of the web apps won't require hiring a professional software dev.
Yeah, I know, I'm well aware of WordPress, Wix and so on.
WordPress and Wix aren't good examples.
Those tools only allow you to create relatively basic web sites.
And they can only serve a small percentage of the market.
Check out the tools I mentioned in the article and in the comments, those are extremely powerul, they allow you to connect different services, access databases, send automatic emails, automate flows, etc.
WordPress is used for all the tasks you mention and more, without hiring software engineers. It's also been exceptionally popular for this reason, and hence became a crippled COBOL of the Internet economy.
Claiming that WP "can only serve a small percentage of the market" either means you're refering to some niche market or know very little about this subject.
Allow me to elaborate:
WordPress is mostly used by folks who want to build websites.
Building websites is a small portion of the market that is being disrupted by Low Code / No Code tools.
For example, things you cannot do with WordPress:
If I may ask, why are you making so many assumptions about me?
Yet building web sites was the example you chose, so WP, Wix, SquareSpace and so on are well known products you claim will be 'disrupted' by people like your employer. Salesforce, SAP and more as well, since they also offer GUI app editors.