With demand for business applications – and, therefore, programmers – at an all-time high, developers are increasingly looking for tools that allow them to build apps faster without taking away the ability to use ‘real’ code when needed.

As such, low-code and no-code tools have enjoyed a surge in popularity in recent months, with the COVID-19 pandemic forcing businesses to divert time and resources away from lengthy development processes and focus on mission-critical operations instead.

Charles Lamanna, corporate vice president of Low Code Application Platform at Microsoft, suggests that appetite for low-code and no-code tools will only continue to accelerate amid the shift to remote working, and the new business challenges that arise as a result.

“With widespread remote work and the evolving business environment due to the pandemic, there’s a need for organizations to quickly build solutions and adjust to the new reality,” Lamanna says.

“We have seen many examples or organizations, developers, and citizen developers using low-code to create solutions that enable them to keep business moving amid a rapidly shifting environment.” Read On: