I’ve been working with DSLs since 2009, but I’ve recently become aware of the term low code. Looking at Wikipedia, it seems the term first appears in a Forrester report from 2014. Prior to that there were application development (RAP) and fourth-generation programming languages. The idea was always the same: improve the development speed by having more high level tools.
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Low code sounds like a great idea but there are some caveats. One of those problems are that applications, over time, tend to grow in features, complexity, and corner cases. IT professionals have the tools to deal with such problems, for example: version control continuous deployment/continuous integration unit testing production, staging, and development environments refactoring The risk that you might encounter when creating a low code application on some platform is that your application becomes so large and complex, that you end up needing this kind of tools in you low code application platform.
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You might have heard of the term low-code, specially if you read this blog. But what can be done with low code? Can I use a low code solution that is already in the market, or should I create my own solution for my business needs? Let us try to answer these two questions.
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Recently I had two epiphanies in the tooling I use. The first one happened as I was tired of my development environment being too slow when I was developing on Windows. I have a very powerful Mac Book Pro with a lot of RAM and an SSD hard disk, I did not spare any money on my main working tool.
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