Comment by spockz

I strongly believe that every tool, every invention, can only innovate/be innovative in one area.

As such what we need is to have the right building blocks and abstraction layers which at the end will mean that something like no or low code will work. It will only work when all the tools that underpin it have been crystallised over the years.

This happens on every layer and is fundamentally why we see so much work repeated, but slightly different. Every language makes different trade offs, therefore all the libraries implement the same functionality but just a bit different this time.

Every once in a while something like UML (too complicated, e.g., due to the use of EJBs), Business Works (too slow), etc comes along which has promise and offers value at the time but just misses the boat to survive until the next generation of revised underlying tools.