What Is the Most Durable, Portable, and Secure Form of Software?
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On the other hand it's hard to know if you are eventually going to need more batteries in the future and you risk having to migrate your solution stack. It's kinda the same with no-code platforms, where it's very easy to do basic CRUD but once you need to do anything slightly more complex you need to reimplement everything in a real language.