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Of course it does...
Low-code tools boost developer productivity[^]
"Over 90 percent of respondents to a new survey say that low-code tools have boosted developer productivity in their organizations. 43.5 percent of developers are saving up to 50 percent of their time when they use low-code tools on a project."
I keeping thinking one of these days I will actually find an organization that actually measures developer productivity. Or devops. Or IT. Or DBAs. Or CEOs.
Now Sales ... those guys have it down ... 'how many contracts did you sign last month?'
But back to the article ...
""Low-code software has real value in democratizing software development to include non-developers," says Jason Beres, senior VP of developer tools at Infragistics, and creator of App Builder software."
Any one want to guess what Infragistics sells? Come on - I dare you.
The 'story' is based on a study created by ... bet you can't guess!
"The full report is available from the App Builder site."
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I mean, I hear what you're saying.
But allow me to play devil's advocate in defense of low code tools at least.
Good ones are gold. SynthMaker (now FlowStone) is absolutely amazing. It was used to build Audio VSTs but is now an entire industrial automation creation tool. It's really well designed, and doesn't limit you strictly to its framework, which is extensible.
As far as productivity, I'd be interested if someone commissioned research on studying HOW to measure developer productivity effectively. That would be a tall order because you have to define things like effectively, but if one could pull it off I'd be rapt.
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the real story about "measuring" developer productivity - if anyone ever really truly wanted to know, would tag two things. The people measuring cannot define any reasonable sort of measurement, and two, most development is brand new - almost an art form. Rarely are developers given a tangible target or description of a target.
years ago, I worked in a group (actually still do but 1/2 are gone now) developers. The development project started with the ubiquitous phrase - "how long?" to which the developers asked, "what is it you want?" This got an eye roll from product development, management and sales. After falling prey to guilt, the developers threw out estimates where upon they were told, "no, that's too long, it has to be ready for the xxx3 trade show."
After the other people's delivery target went zooming by (after a lot of free OT), the entire engineering group were held accountable for missing "their" estimate. 6 months later, we had a number of cubicles open....
So, what's the benefit of "low-code" tools? It's called RAD, tosses something fast in front of the possible customer to figure out what the customer really wants.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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in democratizing software development to include non-developer
is sheer marketing BS. This is a VP in development? I've lived enough of my life watching a democracy destroy perfectly good code because the person in charge would not wave the BS flag. what drivel.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Update: I have since fixed the terrible bug! 
I'm posting this because when I rant about these things to you folks I tend to come up with a solution, and I've been at this since last night. Skip it if you'd rather not be used like that.  It's not a programming question, though I will describe the problem. There's not really code as such.
[\r\n]* (zero or more carriage returns or line feeds) yields a proper set with two transitions
[^\r\n]* (zero or more of anything but carriage returns or line feeds) matches any characters (incorrect). The set has one range with all unicode code points in it, and when you invert the set and then minimize the result it will actually crash.
[^\n\r]* (functionally same as above) but works properly, yielding a set of all except carriage return or line feed. This despite the sets ostensibly being sorted.
I thought I narrowed it down to a normalization routine I have that takes overlapping ranges and merges them. That still might be part of the problem. However, I removed the call to the normalization routine and it still fails my test, so something else is at fault further downstream.
One of the issues is this is in live code - with deployed nuget packages and codeproject articles, and I only just discovered it. So there's some pressure on me to fix it, albeit self imposed. 
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modified 3 days ago.
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Sometimes over-engineered code breaks your neck. And then I can't help but laugh maliciously.
 
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It's actually based on some simple mathematical concepts.
I know enough about the present bug that it has to do with the way I'm sorting and categorizing ranges of characters.
I wouldn't even use ranges except I need to in order to make Unicode practical, but it does cause the algorithm to significantly deviate from what you'd find in a textbook.
It all works, but basically here's what's going on:
Range 1: 0-12
Range 2: 10-0x1ffff
It works fine if range two comes before range one, but how do i sort this? Normally it needs to sort such that Z-A becomes A-Z and therein lies the issue, or at least an issue. Maybe I can side step it somehow. Still stewing on this.
Edit: I just realized it's groups of ranges I'm trying to sort. Maybe I don't need to at all?
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Does the issue only apply to control characters, or do you have issues with other match groups not in order?
e.g. if [^\r\n] fails and/or crashes, does [^rn] fail and/or crash also? If the latter fails also, then maybe you have an issue in your normalization routine. If only the former fails, then I'd have to suspect that it has something to do with handling "special" (i.e. control) characters. Does the group [^\v\n] also fail? What about code>[^\n\r\a\v\t] or other combinations of control chars? What about [^abc\n]?
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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I'll check it out.  thanks
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I would say you should never do any of those. So do not attempt to solve anything.
All of those are unbounded and optional.
Something like the following is correct in that it provides a bound and is not entirely optional.
^\d[^\r\n]*[\r\n]+
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Well, I caught this as part of a larger regular expression, I'm simply taking out a portion in order to simplify.
In my engine, it's perfectly fine to have a zero length match because every subexpression is an expression. It's expressions all the way down.
(Oh, and I get the same results with +)
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honey the codewitch wrote: it's perfectly fine to have a zero length match
I didn't say the engine can't do it. I am saying a programmer should never, not for any reason, write expressions like that for an engine.
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Sure, but in this case, it was sufficient for running down this bug, because of the way the engine works. I did change it to + just to dot my "i"s and cross my "t"s but same result.
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Might be an ordering issue: \r(0x0d) > \n(0x0a).
Mircea
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It is, but I just can't find where it's creating the problem. I've been kind of avoiding it at the moment.
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Message removed
modified 4 days ago.
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I think this is C++, so it should have been posted in that forum
Anyway, a class can have a default constructor, in which case no arguments are required to construct an object of the class. You just write new Class and the constructor assigns a default value to each member...or lets the compiler assign them...or leaves some unassigned, which is usually naughty.
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Have a look at this page : cplusplus.com tutorial variables/[^] and scroll down to the section titled "Initialization of variables."
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Salvatore Terress wrote: I did not make many friends with my last rant.
Hopefully that will not stop somebody to tell me
You're still in the wrong forum dude. This is the same reason why celebrities seem mean or hot chicks seem standoff-ish. Sometimes coders want to chillax despite having coded their entire lives. That's why there's a forum for programming questions.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: hot chicks seem standoff-ish
For you, maybe. 
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Ha ha ha ha. Touché.
Jeremy Falcon
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: For you, maybe
They're not that way for everyone?
Do tell.
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Greg Utas wrote upthread: I think this is C++, so it should have been posted in that forum
Not only that, this would be a QT question, and should probably be asked in a QT specific forum.
Maybe you should get a copy of "The C++ Programming Language" by Bjarne Stroustrup, which covers the language in depth by the person who invented it. If there's nothing that even remotely related to your issue in the book (hint, there's nothing about QT in there at all), then you probably want to ask somewhere that's more relative to your question. Also, consulting the book and reading some of the chapters cannot but help you with your understanding of the language. There's a lot of stuff in C++. I'm sure others here also find that particular book a useful tool. It's not unknown for me to wonder "Wait, how does that work again?" and dig through and not only find the answer to the question that I was asking, but find alternate ways of solving the problem, sometimes in a much more elegant fashion that the approach I was considering. IMHO it's worth the cost.
This isn't meant to be a rant at you. Just a suggestion about how to improve your C++ knowledge, and a gentle reminder that the users here may not be experienced with QT, so QT specific questions should posted on a forum that caters to QT. Likewise for gtkmm or WxWidgets or any other framework that are not part of the core language.
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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No, it is NOT. Apparently you did not read what I wrote because it describes exactly what you posted about - member initialization during construction.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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BTW - my reply was to the original poster, not you. They have deleted their post and you can see the double indentation indicating a post used to be there.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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