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Will Low-Code Development Tools Unleash an Army of Junior Developers Into the World
Software is only as good as the developer creating it
A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse — not a remarkable mathematician.” ― Warren Buffett
Citizen developers are junior developers and junior developers make mistakes and low-quality software. Even if low-code development tools can stop them creating low-quality code, it won’t stop them making mistakes.
The assumption of low-code development tools is they will make software development faster and easier with excel formulas and components instead of code.
The tool will do all the hard work, citizen developer will learn to create software quickly and all companies will rejoice at the lower cost of software development and maintenance.
It sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?
Low-code development platform is a tool? for Low-code development to work it uses the assumption there is no skill with software development and experience makes no difference.
The other perspective would say low-code development tools take away the complexity of writing and maintaining code by doing it for the…
