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I have used OutSystems for almost a year, I think it is almost the best in this area. But I still don’t like it in many ways. Its normal paradigm is simple imperative programming, and usually over abstraction. Some simple logic flow just easier to be read in text. I can conclude OutSystems is not a completed solution for general purpose development, it is just a platform which provides simple template, components, programming. For systems which are data entry (what they call digital transformation), it is ok with an crazy license. However, if you want to implement some business logic, you are better to implement them in general programming language. The components system really show what is leaky abstraction. For some plugin I have to understand what is doing behind. For native Cordova plugin, it is crazy to debug. In a short run, it saves time, however, in a long run, it don’t have any advantages due to two reason: Its development speed will not able to catch up with technology trend, therefore, sometimes of its advantage is no longer an advantage, for example it have components, but frontend framework also have many components.
(Its component framework just copied from the open source, it is hard to find the documentation of the embedded version) The eco-system just sucks, very few plugins because its plugins are not easy to make, and many of them are not supported by the Outsystems so most likely the plugin author will answer your question on the forum. |