In every project I’ve seen where someone has evangelized a visual workflow designer (bar none), the overriding argument has been that “power users”, can “manage” the business workflows.

In every project the business users have no interest in “managing” business workflows, so the developers that built the tool end up having to use the tool for them, implementing their business use cases.

Developers are much more comfortable with code. You cannot easily unit test visual workflow designers. You cannot easily version or put visual workflow designs into source control.

Whenever I see one of these projects I run screaming in the opposite direction.

Locode in general is an anti pattern. I’m specifically looking at Microsoft Dynamics and Power Apps, aka. Microsoft Access Online

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