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    Despite the fact that we've had tools like this for literally decades, the state of the art of modern software development has drifted away from using them. Most modern software development is very code-centric, and I don't see that changing any time soon, unless the next generation of visual tools becomes really compelling. Commented Jun 3, 2016 at 18:09
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    And you're right; the audience for such tools is business analysts for the most part, not software developers. We'll see if it catches on or not; I eagerly await the next generation of applications with 300 controls on a single form, and one database table backing it. Commented Jun 3, 2016 at 18:12
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    @RobertHarvey In my experience these tools are managed by business users until they've painted themselves into a corner. Then developers are brought in to untangle a gigantic mess of unreliable buggy garbage with gobs of unnecessary complexity. These tools lack things that any decent development platform would have (because they aren't made for developers) and usually require opening lots of little dialogs in order to make the same change in 5000 different places. Also, they use source files that no merge tool can make sense with so team development is a nightmare. Commented Jun 3, 2016 at 18:54
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    And yet they're now being held up as the next "silver bullet," and even given a new marketing term. Hooray for enterprise! Commented Jun 3, 2016 at 18:57
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    @RobertHarvey: But think of the synergies you'll be able to leverage by enabling low-code applications in your enterprise cloud. :-) Commented Jun 3, 2016 at 19:23