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by gusbremm
1436 days ago
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I worked for a while on a Mendix app and it felt interesting in the beginning but quickly I started to hate it.. Low code can deliver some features 4x faster but sometimes a stupid feature can take 20x the time just because the low code platform wont support that. Or sometimes the solution is so ugly that the whole project becomes a mess. If you want to deliver top quality stuff you are constantly fighting the low code limitations. However, if you are OK with low code limitations it can be benefical. |
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This is why I'm not too excited about some of these solutions. Seems like I've been here, done that several times in my career: CMS software like Wordpress and Joomla, "Portals", repository and workflow solutions like Alfresco and Appian, etc.
They all save tons of time for a small prototype or very basic use cases, but the minute users want some special feature, you'll spend hours, days or longer fighting against the tool, driving yourself nuts because you know you could implement it in 30 minutes in a custom app. Or you're forced to become an "expert" in these tools, which turns out to be a really bad career move as years of experience with a specific framework will instantly become worthless as industry moves on to the next Big Thing.