Low code or even no code, recently all noise on the dust, the industry of various gods and small gods have jumped out to stand side, I also stand a side.

Conclusion: The industry’s current so-called low-code platforms are not only useless, but also malicious. Why do you say so? Let’s look at the definition of code.

What is a low code platform?

Low code almost everyone has each person’s interpretation, each in their own interpretation, to all sorts of conclusions, feel low code is very useful, there are also feel low code is junk, but this is just our own interpretation, and can’t represent the capitalists, the capitalists, domestic can represent the most business leaders, is the baidu encyclopedia. The definition given here is often brushed by commercial companies, so we will take Baidu Encyclopedia as the standard. In order to prevent it from being tampered with later, I take a screenshot:

Does this concept sound familiar to programmers in their 40s like me? Yes, in the days before Web standards, we relied on table layouts for our web pages, and table layout editing code was a disaster. So, we all use something called DreamWeaver to create our pages. Now the memory of that era, we will stay in adjustment trouble, relatively simple production, but the function is not perfect and so on, but who remember that even a roadside advertisement for a typist, all require DreamWeaver + Photoshop? It was the golden age of capital, at least for this market, where labor costs were infinitely low. I was in Fuzhou, and what I felt was deep despair. The salary is only 300 yuan, even the roadside typist is competing with you. The market doesn’t care if you have good technology, they just want something cheap and good. As for your high skills, you can do very well. Who care? In the end, if it was not for the new technology brought by foreign countries, it is absolutely the result of bad money driving out good money. It is doubtful whether this industry can still exist today. Of course, capital only cares about making money in the short term. Who cares if an industry will still be around in 20 years?

After that, the industry moved on, and the development of Web standards eliminated the typists and graphers. Only then did we have today’s flowers bloom. However, there are people who want to bring DreamWeaver and the like back to life in the name of low code?

If the so-called low code, is said above this kind of thing, really want to resist. The first time was when we didn’t know, we made a mess of the market and almost killed the industry. If you try again, it’s stupid!

We don’t need the concept of low code

Indeed, as some people have said, the scaffolding we use today, the ides and so on, are all low-code platforms of varying degrees, saving people from repetitive work as much as possible. This low-code platform makes sense. So if we were using it 20 years ago, why are we doing this now? The industry likes concept speculation, over the years has been numerous concepts, most of them are laughed off. Just as we know that artificial intelligence is far from mature, 3D vision is far from mature, we can hardly see perfect examples outside the cinema, holography in the real sense is only a concept even now, and stage holography is only a small (not scale) and immature application…

If you think about it, we don’t really need the concept of low code. If low code refers to current scaffolding, etc., then we have a more detailed and clear definition, and do not need a conceptual generalization. If refers to the so-called low code platform on Baidu Encyclopedia. It’s better not to try to turn back history!