The 90s called. They want their RAD tools back.

Hi 90s, this is 2020... OP can't take your call right now because they are busy building low-code environments to help companies keep their dozens of bootcamp hires productively building in-house line-of-business tools that will be a nightmare of maintenance and technical debt in 3 years.

Did you want to leave a message? Perhaps some kind of cautionary tale?

Let’s get them on the phone and negotiate a joint-custody deal, then, because I feel like RAD has only gone downhill since then.

Thinking back to how easy it is to open up VB5, drag-and-drop a UI, and ship an .exe that anyone could run (yes, because of MS’s OS monopoly, but still), the current mess required to build a similarly complex app for the web feels like a serious regression.

what about https://www.animaapp.com/ ?