Low-code dev tools checklist, Red Flags, LC Options to consider

[J. Landman Gay]

Anyone who cut their teeth on HyperCard is old now. <cough>

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On January 23, 2025 2:14:17 PM Mike Kerner via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> i mean, i'm kinda old, which is how i remember the dates.
> that, and my first job out of B-school was a combination
> hypercard/supercard/4d nerd.
> come to think of it, i think 4dv2 was 1990, and, at that time, flowcharts
> were optional.
>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
> wrote:
>
>> dude, 4d hasn't used flowcharts since around 1992, and at that time, it
>> was optional (instead of coding methods like you would usually expect)
>> you are O-L-D.
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah we used to have 4th Dimension at a place I worked at many, MANY
>>> years ago. The whole flow chart paradigm kinda lost me.
>>>
>>> Bob S
>>>
>>>
>>> > On Jan 23, 2025, at 6:01 AM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode <
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > correct, the client framework is running js. the client side of your
>>> > project is low/no, so many of the actions you are invoking are inserted
>>> to
>>> > the widget via a menu. if the widget property editor does not get you
>>> what
>>> > you want, you are writing CSS.
>>> > the server code (where a lot of the action is taking place) is written
>>> in
>>> > an updated version of 4d's newer ORDA language.
>>> > if you remember 4d, it is procedural. the newer syntax is OO, with an
>>> ORM.
>>> > qodly takes that paradigm a step further and makes the syntax more
>>> > modern/JS'y.
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