However, I can personally vouch for 2 champions in no code.
The big behemoth is Salesforce.com.
The incipient champion is Bubble.io.
Cloud infrastructure ,API consumption and mobile usage are the paradigm shifting variables that were not present 10y ago.
The fact that cloud is getting (traditional) corporate green lights and that every employee is using software to do regular 9-5 work indicates that software creation is demanded at exponential scale.
> The end result is always back to code.
Sure. The same way the end result is always back to electrons flowing around. The abstraction layer that no code provides NOT TO YOU but to Michel the accountant is very relevant and will (10y from now) produce a new paradigm shift, as Salesforce pioneered the "no software" [1] SaaS 20y ago.
And the paradigm shift is not "0 code". It's "0 code to get thing rolling; and developing programming skills visually to later on have a more productive talk with coders"
My experience with Salesforce.com is that it's only a no-code champion if your needs are so simple that you might as well not be using Salesforce.com - i.e., a simple CRM with a few plugins. The real strength of Salesforce.com is that you can use code to customize it and get the real utility you're paying for out of it.
It's "no software" in the sense that all SaaS systems are "no software". Realistically, Salesforce.com is very much enterprise software of the sort that requires real customization in the form of real code to implement the important business requirements.
My experience has been different. When I worked for a travel company, it joined Salesforce. Shortly thereafter it had to hire a full-time Apex programmer to make Salesforce do all the things the Salesforce salespeople promised it would do without a programmer.
Exactly this. I've never seen anyone set up Salesforce themselves, I'd even go so far as to suggest that Salesforce is wilfully so opaque purely to enable a commercial ecosystem of "certified" chancers and ne'er-do-wells who you have to call every time anything goes wrong.
However, I can personally vouch for 2 champions in no code.
The big behemoth is Salesforce.com. The incipient champion is Bubble.io.
Cloud infrastructure ,API consumption and mobile usage are the paradigm shifting variables that were not present 10y ago.
The fact that cloud is getting (traditional) corporate green lights and that every employee is using software to do regular 9-5 work indicates that software creation is demanded at exponential scale.
> The end result is always back to code.
Sure. The same way the end result is always back to electrons flowing around. The abstraction layer that no code provides NOT TO YOU but to Michel the accountant is very relevant and will (10y from now) produce a new paradigm shift, as Salesforce pioneered the "no software" [1] SaaS 20y ago.
And the paradigm shift is not "0 code". It's "0 code to get thing rolling; and developing programming skills visually to later on have a more productive talk with coders"
[1] https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...