I. Introduction
In the soft engineering bible "The Mythical Man-Month" , the author Brooks pointed out a deadlock in software development: adding manpower to lagging projects will only make progress more backward.
In order to complete the project faster, the development team will grow extremely large, so that all the time is spent on communication and change decisions, which makes the end of the project indefinitely.
So will low-code become a tool to break this deadlock?
2. Developers need low-code tools to keep innovating
In the past 10 years, when even traditional enterprises began to digitize on a large scale, we found that in the process of developing internal tools, a large number of pages, scenes, components, etc. were constantly repeated. This repetitive work of reinventing the wheel wasted a lot of time for engineers.
In response to such problems, low-code visualizes certain recurring scenarios and processes into individual components, APIs, and database interfaces, avoiding repeated wheel creation. Greatly improved developer productivity. At the same time, it also liberates developers to devote themselves to more valuable business innovation fields.
3. Everyone loves black boxes
In fact, developers love "black boxes", especially black boxes that can save us a lot of time. Under the premise of a good understanding of the business itself, low-code development can often complete a comprehensive application in a few weeks.
Here is a low-code platform I experienced some time ago. It is an enterprise-level low-code platform based on java/.net+Vue3. It adopts SpringBoot micro-service architecture and SpringCloud mode. It has a perfect foundation for platform expansion and meets the rapid development and flexible expansion of the system. Comprehensive capabilities such as seamless integration and high-performance applications; it supports front-end and back-end separation modes, and front-end and back-end developers can work together to be responsible for different sections. It is the JNPF rapid development platform. Official website: https://www.jnpfsoft.com/?csdn . Real knowledge comes from practice, and you can experience it yourself.
4. How does it feel to develop with low-code tools?
Fundamentally, there are those who believe that building software with low-code is no different than building software any other way.
Because with low-code, you can try to avoid unnecessary work!
For example, instead of manually writing yet another user and permission management module, dealing with the latest programming framework features, or writing ten test methods before writing the first line of application code, you can directly create new, useful something of value.
After all, based on the platform, those problems have already been solved and the inherent patterns are fully accepted, so why do you have to repeat it?
5. Write at the end
In the age of a pandemic, the economy can slow down, but businesses are afraid to slow down. It's just that, in the past, more growth was achieved by expanding the scale, but now it relies on improving human efficiency, or improving innovation. Looking at low code from this level, no doubt, it is just a tool to improve efficiency.
All, in any case, for users, low-code is just a tool, not a replacement for a certain group of people. In a low-code ecosystem, developers with computer science and engineering backgrounds will continue to drive innovation in a code-first manner.
At the same time, low-code tools can give them efficiency advantages, while also opening the door for more non-technical employees to participate in the development process, thereby increasing collaboration. So, take it easy. Just like driving, you can choose automatic transmission or manual transmission. But automatic transmission is destined to be a trend.