These were hot stuff years back in CRM/ERP land - there’s a genre name which I can’t recall. Tibco Businessworks was one. Back in the day it was “drag and drop” coding. And it was marketed heavily to non-tech managers.
The problem I saw was the same problem that (almost) every framework everywhere has. It makes expected use cases easy, small variations difficult, and unexpected use cases impossible. The escape hatch was generally via custom code that used some horrible DSL evolved from a config file.
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These were hot stuff years back in CRM/ERP land - there’s a genre name which I can’t recall. Tibco Businessworks was one. Back in the day it was “drag and drop” coding. And it was marketed heavily to non-tech managers.
The problem I saw was the same problem that (almost) every framework everywhere has. It makes expected use cases easy, small variations difficult, and unexpected use cases impossible. The escape hatch was generally via custom code that used some horrible DSL evolved from a config file.