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Discussion on: The Big Five in tech (faamg) bet on low-code development

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Heiko Kanzler šŸ‡ŖšŸ‡ŗ • Edited

There has been some really good No code / Low Code environments around for a long time. Think of Apples Hypercard, File Maker, Fox Pro, and my favorite of all time (still!) Novell AppWare (earlier named Microbrew / programmers workshop / Serius Developer)

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppWare

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Jordi Cabot

Hi, just curious, what makes you like Appware so much?

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Heiko Kanzler šŸ‡ŖšŸ‡ŗ

It's a discontinued product for decades now, but what I liked was that it has already solved cross platform development problems in the 90s. The final builds have been very small and while you needed a big screen for "development" (remember: 12 to 14 inch have been common this days, 15 to 17" have been expensive and 19" only common for DTP).

The term "application developmen" came up this time, low code / no code wasn't a term this days. You could easily click together a full business application in days. I could even write services and background application (I used it to adapt serial devices to File Maker Pro applications).