Название: Low-Code and the Democratization of Programming: Rethinking Where Programming Is Headed
Автор: O’Reilly Editorial Team
Издательство: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Год: 2021-08-06
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

Low-code is one of the fastest growing areas of software development today. An increasing number of PaaS companies now offer low-code solutions for data manipulation, integration, and transformation; and the shift toward low-code solutions is poised to unleash a new democratization of programming.

Programmers know their jobs won’t disappear with a broadscale low-code takeover (even low-code is built on code), but undeniably their roles as programmers will shift as more companies adopt low-code solutions. This report is for programmers and software development teams looking to navigate that shift and understand how low-code and no-code solutions will shape their approach to code and coding. It will be fundamental for anyone working in software development—and, indeed, anyone working in any business that is poised to become a digital business—to understand what low-code means, how it will transform their roles, what kinds of issues it creates, why it won’t work for everything, and what new kinds of programmers and programming will emerge as a result.

Everything Is Low-Code
Low-code: what does it even mean? “Low-code” sounds simple: less is more, right? But we’re not talking about modern architecture; we’re talking about telling a computer how to achieve some result. In that context, low-code quickly becomes a complex topic. Another way of looking at low-code is to take an even bigger step back, and look at the history of programming from the start. Python is low-code relative to C++; C and FORTRAN are low-code relative to assembler; assembler is low-code relative to machine language and toggling switches to insert binary instructions directly into the computer’s memory. In this sense, the history of programming is the history of low-code.