Re: Genexus development - opinions? -- WEB400

Those are all of the same thoughts I am having.  GeneXus states that you
don't ever go back to the generated code but instead make all of your
changes in the proprietary language.

I guess I would relate it to RPG code being generated into machine code -
GeneXus is just doing the next generation of that mindset and making
programming "easier". This had made me think what programming will be like
in 2020. Will we all be using tools like GeneXus?  Just think how much
better businesses could thrive if they didn't need to spend as much on IT
programming as they do.  I guess I am just frustrated with Java (i.e.
Tapestry/Hibernate/Spring/Hivemind to be specific) this week and am dreaming
of better days :-)

The jury is still out concerning how well it works when the rubber hits the
road. That is why I am hoping I can get somebody with real world experience
willing to share the good times and bad.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog
 

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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Brad Stone
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 5:13 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Genexus development - opinions?

So, let me get this straight.

This is an application that you write code in a proprietary language so it
will spit out code in your language of choice.  Write code that generates
code.

The basis behind it being what?  Learn just the one proprietary langauge and
you can program in any language? 

Yes, interesting concept.  10 bucks says it generates horrible code (or do
we care?)

Coding, sure, it may be fine.  "Programming" on the other hand... I don't
see it happening.

Brad

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:51:11 -0500
 "albartell" <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

When my schedule clears up I am going to look into this new 
development platform I learned about at COMMON Mnpls 2006 called 
GeneXus.  I have seen a demo and was impressed with the ease of 
creating a simple app.  The basic concept is that you develop in their 
proprietary syntax and then generate code for any number of languages 
from that proprietary syntax. In concept this is very cool because 
they take the "pain" out of application development by abstracting the 
stuff that takes forever to do (ie putting the framework pieces 
together) and instead the developer is only concerned about pumping 
out the next business logic app.  Almost like the difference between 
Java and RPG :-)
 
Ok, so here is what I am wondering.  Has anyone else on this list used 
the product and how do you like it?
 
TIA,
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog
 <mailto:aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 
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