Some people believe that codeless development is just an IQ tax, which is entirely hyped by media, while others believe that codeless development is a trend, which can release the productivity and creativity of the masses and allow more people to participate in Internet collabora

IT development is surging, and new technologies are emerging one after another. Even if they trigger discussion, they will soon return to peace.

What’s strange is that in 2018, Siemens acquired the Mendix low-code platform for a huge sum of US$700 million, and then has completed a US$270 million financing for platform Airtable. Since then, the debate over "low/no code development" has never stopped.

Some people believe that codeless development is just an IQ tax, which relies entirely on media hype, while others believe that codeless is a trend, which can release the productivity and creativity of the masses and allow more people to participate in Internet collaboration.

Just as netizens were discussing it in full swing, the capital market seemed to have given a direction.

answers to giants

Silicon Valley technology giants have all laid out low/no code development platforms, Google launch Quick Builder, Amazon Honeycode, Apple launch Automator, Microsoft 's Power Platform low-code development platform, and it is also a high-profile announcement to be commercialized in China.

even Tesla , which is famous for making cars. The company's employees used the Mendix low-code platform to create a new ERP system in just 4 months, which caused a sensation in the entire software industry.

Microsoft executives frankly say that no code is its "Next Big Thing", and Google also says that no code will be a new change in the development industry. What is

codeless development?

code-free development technology, through visual construction tools, encapsulates the complex underlying architecture, and provides a business execution engine, so that developers do not need to pay attention to complex IT technologies, but only focus on business logic processing.

In short, software construction does not require writing a line of code, and software development is not only exclusive to programmers .

low/no code development You must have used

codeless development is not a new thing. As early as 1985, Microsoft released excel, which is also considered the first generation of codeless development tool . Through excel, ordinary people can complete complex data processing and visual presentation without writing any code. For people at that time, this was an incredible thing.

Then, members of the Office family such as Word and PowerPoint gradually appeared, and the data collection, processing and presentation capabilities have been greatly improved, and computers have also become a powerful tool for productivity.

991, Microsoft launched its first visual programming software Visual Basictml2 (referred to as VB), which is considered a low-code development tool . Different types of objects such as windows and menu buttons can be "drawn" through VB, quickly prototyped and easy to use. To this day, many office programs are still written through VB.

Interestingly, in 1992, Microsoft launched a more special visualization tool - Access. Most of its users lack professional programming technology. At the same time, they do not meet Excel's simple data processing capabilities. Access only needs to write a small amount of code to complete software development, which is just suitable for this group of non-IT practitioners. Access can naturally be called a low-code development tool. Even if Microsoft has taken action many times and hopes to close the Access business, it ends in failure.

Whether it is VB or Access, as a fast development tool and the originator of low-code development, it still has a place in today's fierce market competition. It can be seen that low/no-code development is just a new concept, which allows more people to achieve rapid development. This is a good tool, without being too resistant.

Domestic codeless results have been achieved in China

Back to China, as early as 2000, the first low/codeless development tool - Easy language was launched. It has been more than 20 years since its development. A hundred companies in related fields have contended. A codeless development platform called eversheet impressed me.

eversheet pioneered the table format programming technology, similar to the excel operation interface, you can design the software interface by drawing tables, and the two tables automatically generate data models, and a pure Chinese design interface. Enterprise employees do not need to write a line of code to complete the construction of ERP, WMS, PLM, MES, WMS, purchase and sales , salary management, financial management and other systems.

Domestic code-free development platform is not a toy. Eversheet benefits more than 200,000 companies and builds large-scale industrial-grade systems. Leading companies such as Hengyi Group , Xuji Electric Group, and Huawei are all in-depth use.

Of course, there are many excellent low/no code development companies in China, so I won’t list them one by one.

summary

From excel to VB and Access, and then to the eversheet, low/code-free development has always been there, and you and I have even used it. The road to popularization of software programming in will come in the end!