Over the years and even decades, there have been many efforts to make the lives of professional developers easier, with low-code (or at least lower-code) solutions from fourth-generation languages to CASE tools to mashups to serverless computing.
The prospects for low-code and no-code software development over the coming year are mixed, according to chief technology officers participating in a recent roundtable organized by The Software House.
In a recent post, Dona Sarkar, principal cloud advocate at Microsoft, makes the case for low-code approaches, noting that professional developers benefit as much as the business types who have access to such tools.
She pointed out, low-code merges with collaboration platforms to bring the most valuable and commonly used apps where workers are collaborating.
Besides. automation will help resolve the hiccups it takes to run organizations.
“If you work in IT or know someone who does, you know there is a lot of manual work on a day-to-day basis.
There are updates to install and configuring to do for various servers, machines, and apps.
Once our IT friends discover that they can automate many of these tasks, their life becomes much easier.”
CTOs participating in The Software House roundtable agree that low-code is promising, but there will always be a need for professional developers as well.
Over the coming years, “creating software will certainly involve ‘putting blocks together’ and less custom code,” says CTO of Factris.