Low-code is a software development approach that allows applications to be created faster and with a minimum of manual programming.
Using a visual paradigm in a graphical interface to structure and configure applications, developers avoid all the infrastructure part and the repeated implementation of patterns that can bog them down and go directly to the 20% that differentiates one application from another, that is, to what really adds value to customers.
From another perspective, imagine a factory that produces physical goods: the machines involved in automation do not decide what the manufactured good looks like, but speed up the assembly and delivery process. That's more or less what low-code does.
Low-code is to software what assembly lines are to industry: Both automate manual tasks that are difficult, repetitive, and time-consuming to free people to do things that are far more important, like focusing more on customer problems and analysis.
Low-code platform, who is it for?
A few weeks ago we released an article explaining how to choose a low-code development platform, or, in Spanish, with little code. We distinguish three user profiles that range from less to more in technical knowledge:
the citizen developer (using no-code platforms)
the non-programming technical developer (business analysts with ICT knowledge)
the professional developer looking for a cost-effective development environment
As explained in that article, depending on the profile, the low-code platform to use is different. In today's post we will take a different approach, we will focus on explaining the advantages of developing using a low-code platform if you are a professional developer or a management software programming company.
Why? Well, because there is a myth that low-code technologies are not for programmers. From our experience as providers of a low-code programming environment, we can ensure that a high percentage of our community currently comes from technologies focused on programmers such as Java and Microsoft (either from V8 or .Net).
Advantages of low-code programming platforms
The main advantage of a low-code platform is that it saves you time and money. It makes it easy to focus on customer ideas, rather than developing technology. It allows you to turn great ideas into profitable software by simplifying the entire development cycle, that is, from development to deployment (usually in the cloud but also on-premises) and future maintenance.
In the age of digital change, you have two options: be disruptive… or stay out of the game. With demand increasing, resources declining, and lead times shrinking, how can you meet?
A low-code platform allows you to write and deploy management software faster than you thought possible. Low-code platforms give you confidence, since technically they allow you to do very complex things and bring programming closer to both niche software companies and technical profiles who know the company's workflows very well but who do not necessarily have knowledge advanced programming, although that does NOT mean that they do not know how to program.
In other words… Who really has advanced programming knowledge? Some surely do, and there will be others who do not, and who have simply reached the conclusion that customers do not care how you do it... What is really important is the value of what you contribute to their processes and their company.
Low-code development technologies allow you to focus on the client and not so much on the technology. They allow you to be more focused on WHAT and not so much on HOW, a phrase that we have repeated on many occasions since our communication and that is summed up in our motto “life is soft”.