[tyingq]

I agree with you, but I also think it's a legitimate complaint that crud apps take so much time to build.

They used to be pretty quick with things like PowerBuilder...we've regressed.

There are things like this: https://developers.google.com/appmaker/

But nobody seems to have gotten big/broad traction with them yet.

[dragonwriter]

> I agree with you, but I also think it's a legitimate complaint that crud apps take so much time to build.

I'm not sure it is; no one really wants pure CRUD apps, they want CRUD + some useful processing; optimizing for the efficiency of making pure CRUD apps would probably be a net loss for real-world apps, which is why even though people keep making tools that make pure CRUD near zero effort, they don't become dominant tools (or, at least, that function of the tool isn't dominant.)

[WalterGR]

people keep making tools that make pure CRUD near zero effort

Could you name some? I’m struggling to think of any.

[michaelchisari]

Our tools have gotten more complex because our requirements have grown with them. People might say they want a simple CRUD app, but expectations grow very quickly.