As developers, most of us create applications through the conscious act of programming, either procedural, as many of us old-timers grew up with, or object-oriented, which we grudgingly had to admit was better. This is true whether we are using Java, LotusScript, C++ or Rust on Domino. (By the way, does anyone remember Pascal? When I was in school, I remember being told it was the language of the future, but for some reason it didn't seem to survive past the MTV era). But in the last decade, there are some new developments in the programming world that we need to take into account... and no, I'm not talking about AI.

This is part one of a fourteen-part series describing our long journey in redefining the Domino platform and how to use it to meet the expectations of today's customers -- specifically new customers. Our focus is totally on what new customers are looking for, not what existing Domino customers expect.

I have not blogged in a long time not since CollabSphere 2019. We have been relatively busy working on projects and on our newest versions of our Domino-based iPhora solutions. We started working on our iPhora platform over a decade ago with the focus of creating a platform that we would use to help companies automate their complex business processes.