Development platform types
Over the last two decades, the way we develop software has changed dramatically. This is a result of several technological advancements, such as cloud, mobile, IoT, AI/ML, and more. In addition, agility in developing software gained importance due to increasing competition, and the IT industry came up with numerous programming languages, paradigms, frameworks, and patterns. With all these, the tools used by developers needed to support much more than coding. We will talk about tools in the Application development tools section later; here, we want to discuss the rise of a new development platform type, along with all these changes.
Low-code/no-code development
One part of the story is about the tools and which convenience features they provide for developers. This includes hiding some of the complexity behind patterns, boilerplate codes, and reusability. For many scenarios, applications share similar components, and for the parts that differ from scenario...