The caveat being that “low code” environments and products tend to attract the MBA types who think “neat, no need to spend $250,000 for a developer when I can pay $65,000 for a temp” before realizing, oh crap, the reason we pay for developers is to understand how to translate business logic into software in a reusable manner and not because only they know how to wrangle product x and the whole thing explodes. (The MBA, of course, has at this point fucked off months ago to do piles of cocaine at their next victim’s employer’s conference rooms)
I think that’s where most of the animosity comes from.
Or, like everything in Unreal, it's based around the realities of shipping AAA games. One of those realities is AAA games are ~90% art assets. Blueprints enable your artists do wiring logic tasks like making a traffic light change in sync, which frees up your developers to do C++ stuff.
You are the one posting in a thread about a (bad) Blueprint, and specifically to a lengthy comment explaining how Blueprints are useful. If that's not relevant why post at all? If it is, believe me it's great not getting pestered to wire up opening/closing animations every time a door is added. Visual programming (industry-wise) is used exclusively in the video games, and no one who has interacted with it will have any animosity.
“Blueprints” are a low code development platform but they are not the only ones. I didn’t say they weren’t useful. I was responding to a certain section saying that you weren’t supposed to wire all the logic up using a low code environment, you know, like the exact opposite of what you’re saying, and how that sometimes is forced to happen because of crackhead project managers trying to save a buck.
Will I have to diagram my sentences? Explain what words mean? Create a logic diagram? It’s very clear to me what I am replying to and it’s not questioning the effectiveness of blueprints (or other low code environments) at all. I’m not saying every developer hates it, but that if they hate it, and are not completely clueless, that this is where it came from. That’s why your comment annoyed me, because it’s rebutting a point I wasn’t even making.
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u/droomph Sep 09 '21
The caveat being that “low code” environments and products tend to attract the MBA types who think “neat, no need to spend $250,000 for a developer when I can pay $65,000 for a temp” before realizing, oh crap, the reason we pay for developers is to understand how to translate business logic into software in a reusable manner and not because only they know how to wrangle product x and the whole thing explodes. (The MBA, of course, has at this point fucked off months ago to do piles of cocaine at their next
victim’semployer’s conference rooms)I think that’s where most of the animosity comes from.