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Ask HN: Do you use nocode programming tools? What’s the state of the art?

by blickentwapft on 8/14/20, 12:11 PM with 1 comments

I’ve revently found that games programming nocode tools are incredibly sophisticated.

I wonder why back end server application development tools aren’t?

Why do I have to write everything in code?

I would have thought by now I’d be able to wire most of it up nocode and fill in the gaps where more sophisticated stuff is needed with code.

So I wonder, what is the state of the art in nocode?

What is up and coming, what looks exciting and promising?

  • by gitgud on 8/14/20, 12:44 PM

    Retool seems pretty [1] state of the art.

    No/Low code is just a new phrase for the older and less-cool visual-programming, which has been a mirage since computer graphics came out...

    [1] https://retool.com/