habeyer

I misspoke.

It's not Front-End dev as a whole, just the "pushing-pixels" stuff.

There's a ton of difficult FE work (esp. state). It's just that when it comes to a lot of the "basic" styling and responsiveness there's a lot of tedious work that should be automate-able (just like any framework or library, the goal is to reduce unnecessary work, not to suggest that the work is trivial).

The difference is that Shopify and Wordpress are for well-defined solutions (shopping, blogs, landing pages), but are NOT viable for custom software applications.

It was low-code for the back-end as well or just front-end?

Back-end feels really risky to me, because visual logic builders are just so limiting compared to code.

100%. Key thing is finding the right abstractions where the tool does enough to provide real value, but slots neatly into your existing workflow without requiring a bunch more work to actually integrated.

I don't think low-code as a "generalized" solution will ever gain traction with developers, but has a future as small, focused tools to solve specific dev problems.

Yeah, I think Zapier is one of if not the only example I've come across in my software dev career of a low-code-type tool that devs will reach for before doing stuff by hand.

Great example of where low-code is a better alternative for a very narrow use case of development.

Text characters are always going to be way more concise than their visual representations.

Agreed 100%.

You CANNOT solve complexity by just making things "visual". Biggest low/no-code mistake.

hasura.io

Really? Didn't know that. Address and phone seem pretty intrusive.

What was the contribution process like for the big repos like react-native? Did they make it hard to be accepted?

Orthodox Jew here who went through the Yeshiva system (~10 years of full-time study).

If you haven't read the Bible in the original Hebrew here's an analogy: imagine the tactile, raw feel of Robert Frost, how the language he employs and the deliberate choice of words makes his poems feel as if they rhyme. Now compact all that into the extreme terseness of Emily Dickinson.

My weekly highlight is the public reading of the Prophets in the synagogue every Sabbath. The language, the rhythm, it's beautiful.