Having tried a number of OutSystems' competitors that use a Web interface, I can assure you... YOU DON'T WANT THIS.
Yes, it's convenient and cross platform. That's where the benefits end.
The UI has itty bitty little slowdowns all over it, making it EXTREMELY frustrating, especially with all of the drag/drop and over mouse-activated stuff. You end up having to do some ugly things with the UI to make stuff work. Forget multi-monitor stuff, that won't work at all (or anything else where two separate windows would be helpful). Any company who wants to develop in an on-prem situation can't do it, unless you set up some sort of VPN between the Web IDE and their systems. Companies developing highly-secure apps won't work like this.
I have worked with quite a few OutSystems environments where I had to VPN to their network, THEN remote desktop to a secured desktop in order to develop code and view the application, there is no way those organizations will work with a Web IDE.
Now, maybe if the UI was PERFECT and perfectly smooth and felt 100% like a real desktop application... then I might say, "oh well, let's ignore those super security conscious enterprise clients"... but they make up a good size portion of the userbase.
J.Ja
Merged from 'Drop the native versions of the IDE and go to a web only interface' (idea created on 20 Jul 2018 07:04:21 by André Ramos), on 23 Jul 2018 07:35:24 by Vasco Pessanha