krishvs

I'm quite bullish about low-code tools now. Especially for building back office systems like ERPs or operational tools. From my experience most failures in such project implementations have been due to mismanagement in the requirement gathering phase and also development happening in silos where the team building has no real understanding of the business process workflows.

But with gpt-3.5 - these tools can really inlock the ability of non technical people to build products. Maybe outsystems should have a gpt chat interface that builds software on its platform directly from the requirements of the end user instead of any intermediate human development team.

Ok.....so you expect the scientists who are working on space systems to better put their efforts to solve a (hypothetical) rape culture?

How do you think their skillsets translate into solving rape culture?

Terrible news. He will be missed. My heart breaks for his wife and kid. RIP Chris.

Having used low-code tools successfully to build ERP systems for the past few years.

I feel low code tools can only really disrupt development once they solve the problem of requirements gathering from customers/ end users and also formally describe change management in low-code as well. As long as there is ambiguity in requirements - code or low code makes no difference.

This is a good point. Most comments about the rewrite in code being easier might actually be because the functional requirements from the business users have already been made clear without the ambiguity that might have arisen when developing from scratch.

Based on your experience would you be comfortable to list a few of the no-code tools to avoid when taking maintainability into account? Would be useful.

Companies in the middle east ( Saudi, Oman etc ) are required to follow very rigid localization + sponsorship rules in both ownership/legal structure as well as in employee hiring.

I am curious to know more on how to plan on automating it. Would be very valuable in the Middle east region if possible.

I was in the Uae for 5 days last week and travelling again tomorrow. For me it looks like pre-covid times - everything is open. Cricket matches in stadiums to dubai expo. They report < 100 cases per day but no one really believes those numbers to be true.

Mask wearing( atleast properly ) was maybe 40-50%. Countries like Oman with lower vaccination rates felt much safer because everyone seemed to take mask wearing much more seriously.

The third point about 2 alphas is a big one. Will save you a lot of heartbreak and headache in the future.

This is an excellent framework to validate a low-code/ full-stack frameworks as ERPs are complex beasts. I would like to also add( especially for opensource low-code frameworks ):

#6 Can it generate pdf and excel reports

#7 Does it support scheduled jobs/tasks

#8 Can you choose to execute logic in the backend ( this does not seem to be the case for retool etc which only support frontend js )

#9 Can I extend with my own js, css and backend libraries

#10 Is it horizontally scalable and stateless

#11 Drag and drop ui builder that is not hard-coded to a single css framework and that generates code that can be modified.

I have not yet found any low-code framework that fits into these benchmarks

Absolutely agree with this point. At the company I work for whenever we create reports its always done twice or thrice - a browser version, a pdf that is printable and an excel version for business users to download and play with.

Waseem seems to have moved onto the accounting/finance world now as the CEO of Pilot. This seems to me to be an even bigger jump than kernel dev to chat software. The variation is amazing!