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by Jordanpomeroy 1613 days ago
The promise of low code.

I’m sure there is a time and place for it (Power Apps is a billion dollar business), like time keeping frontend logic. Apps with significant logic and complexity will always need developers.

I’m not critical of your app as I have no real understanding of what it does and why the design choices were made. I do not think embedding logic in SQL would be an ideal way for any app I’ve worked on to work.

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> The promise of low code.

Not exactly. We still have shitloads of code. It has just been modularized & standardized such that each component can now mostly be configured by SQL the business writes.

Our product is a B2B application, and each one of our customers has very precise & unique business rules they would like to see applied.

Every customer uses the same code pile, but with varying configuration (SQL).