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by quantadev 567 days ago
Well said. You are exactly right. Low Code stuff is usually invented by people with a specific set of criteria that they realize can be generalized, and defined by a GUI, but who lack enough experience to realize the entire world of possibilities can't be crammed into their model. Languages (like Python, etc) are already the most compact way to represent most things, and trying to avoid that fact just makes things even harder.
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You're letting perfect be the enemy of good. The low code solutions can simply have a full-code escape hatch with interop. Much like how Python can interop with C.
But people who lack enough experience to realize the entire world of possibilities that can't be crammed into their model aren't normally humble enough to design good escape hatches.
Oh, I definitely agree that's what should be done. You'd have generated code and non-generated code that way.