Low-code vs Model-Driven Engineering
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This document discusses the relationship between low-code development and model-driven engineering (MDE). It notes that low-code is essentially a style of model-driven development focused on specific application types using a fixed language. While low-code tools have improved, the core concepts of modeling and code generation from models have existed in MDE research since the 1980s. The document argues low-code is worth studying from social and economic perspectives but does not present significant new technical challenges for MDE research. However, low-code popularity could help bring modeling expertise to new domains and communities. Researchers should monitor no-code tools which may evolve low-code further.
Low-code vs Model-Driven Engineering
- 1. Low-code vs Model-Driven Engineering Jordi Cabot @softmodeling – jordicabot.com October 2020 LATEST VERSION ALWAYS AT: https://modeling-languages.com/low-code-vs-model-driven/
- 2. What this talk is NOT about
- 5. Is there anything fundamentally new behind the low-code movement? How does it relate to other concepts like MDD or MDD? What are the implications for researchers in the modeling community?
- 6. A little bit of perspective
- 7. Low-code application platforms accelerate app delivery by dramatically reducing the amount of hand-coding required – Forrester Report
- 8. He was already saying this in 1985
- 9. "Given the final model, the complete computerized information system can be automatically generated“ "we arrive at a specification from which executable code can be automatically generated" Already topics at CAiSE’91
- 10. • Grady Booch – history of softwre engineering The entire history of software engineering is that of the rise in levels of abstraction - Grady Booch
- 14. Low-code is a “style” of MDD • Focused on specific types of applications • Where the language is typically fixed and closed No-code is more configuration/plugging • Not really a more extreme version of low-code as it is often assumed
- 16. Low-code is worth studying from many perspectives • Social, economical, marketing… I just don’t see what is technically new • Let’s not create a research bubble nor reinvent the wheel. • I wouldn’t like to see basically repetitions of Models papers from previous years just changing the keywords MDE,MDD,… with “low-code”
- 17. Plenty of research challenges for MDE (and therefore low- code as well) available already Bucchiarone, Cabot, Paige, Pierantonio: Grand challenges in model-driven engineering: an analysis of the state of the research. Sosym 19(1): 5-13 (2020)
- 20. Low-code is trending because • Much clearer message: Everybody understands that low-code means “less coding”. MDD is much more confusing • Sounds familiar, as the marketing msg is still focus on the code • Simpler pipeline, no transformation chains, one-shot modeling. • Low-code tools are better And remember success of a MDD project depends on social and managerial aspects more than tech • But we don’t want to give the wrong idea that development is easy
- 21. Low-code is a huge opportunity to bring modeling (and our modeling expertise) to new domains, markets and communities Once we hook them up, we can introduce other MDE layers
- 23. Keep an eye on no-code
- 24. Low-code is dead, long live multi-experience development
Editor's Notes
- #2: Thank you for the invitation. It’s an honour to be here. I’ll talk about the intersection between these two concepts and how they can help each other I’ll try to cover the state of the art but also to focused on some specific applications we’re working on in my team
- #3: To see the future we need to first understand the present. I’ll start by discussing where we are in the modeling world.
- #4: This is not about what approach is best or whether we should be fighting for supremacy
- #5: To see the future we need to first understand the present. I’ll start by discussing where we are in the modeling world.
- #18: Feel free to ask me for a free copy of the paper
- #20: Right now, low-code
- #21: Compare Mendix with Eclipse/EMF
- #22: low-code is lowering the barrier to enter the modeling technical space. Once they are hooked up
- #23: I love low-code