No Code/Low Code: Development Outlook and Trends in 2023

The development often looks like a gradual complication of the same process in order to achieve better results. Sooner or later there comes a moment when further complication leads only to the deterioration of the final result, while simplification improves the achieved result.

This is exactly how we can visualize reasons for the popularity of Low Code because this method is a simplification of a sequence of actions that already exists.

Based on the Gartner's forecasts it can be said that in the near future the world of IT technologies will undergo serious changes. Speaking about the forecasts, the analysts agree in the opinion that by 2023-2024, about 70 percent of all corporate software will be developed using the Low Code. Changes are also expected in analytics.

Redistribution of interest points from companies and specialists smoothly leads to the fact that IT market will refuse classical coding in favor of Low Code. But what does it mean? So what is Low Code?

What is Low Code and No Code?

Low Code is a technique for creating information systems, services and software with minimal or no handwritten code. This method implies that a specialist uses an open library or any other code from the open access to create software. Thus, the circle of specialists capable of creating software for business is expanding dramatically.

No Code is a derivative of Low Code, which implies the complete absence of handwritten code in the software. So if the percentage of handwritten code was minimal - it's Low Code, but if all the code was copied, it's respectively No Code.

The Low Code philosophy is intended to allow the widest possible range of specialists to create software for business. Where previously only programmers were able to do the development, the Low Code philosophy allows anyone who wants to copy the necessary elements of the code to end up with a completely new software.

In addition to simplifying the development process, the Low Code methodology also aims to create even better software. By eliminating the handwritten code from the software the company can involve not only programmers but also specialists who directly develop the software for them. This approach creates unlimited opportunities for development, so it is not surprising that it has become a trend.

Why do companies choose Low Code?

Trends come and go but the Low Code methodology attracts more companies every day, what is the reason? Speaking about the success and popularity of the Low Code it is necessary to pay attention to the benefits offered by this methodology. The list of the benefits of the Low Code methodology is the following:

• Increased development speed and reduced time required to implement new functions in information systems.


• An average 35% faster prototyping of applications and their individual elements compared to the use of handwritten code.


• Reducing the load on the development and technology department in order to increase the final efficiency.


• Ability to involve business experts in the creation of new business systems.


• It is possible to create an environment where all participants can share the code elements responsible for certain functions and use the received environment at the scale of a company.

The listed advantages and opportunities offered by Low Code are not everything. Actually the Low Code method has dozens of advantages and we have already considered some of them earlier. Most of the listed features can be implemented with manual coding but what then is the feature that made Low Code so popular?

Programming and Low Code: From complicated to simple

The IT market is constantly growing and developing. The level of competition in this niche is constantly increasing, which means that companies need to come up with new products faster and faster. It is impossible to forget about quality, because otherwise the developed product won't get the desirable popularity, so what should it be?

Speaking of IT, it is worth considering that this market is not only the fastest growing, but also the most adaptable. Having realized that the constant complication of the code will not lead to better results, the specialists came to the conclusion that the time of simplification had come. And this is how the Low Code method appeared.

Due to the Low Code method it is possible to involve more specialists into the development process, including highly specialized employees. Thus, a company developing a network, as a result receives maximum qualitative product with minimum time expenditure and minimum workload of specialists. Thus, Low Code has become not just a trend, but a direction, the prospects of which are difficult to assess.

Why is Low Code the future of IT?

Developing corporate software, creating programs and applications for users and even creating websites are all components of IT. Constant progress in this field has resulted in programming languages with varying degrees of complexity. But why did the industry which so strived for variability - turning in the direction of simplification?

In fact, the answer is simple - all conditions are dictated by the market. Users are not interested in programs and applications written in different programming languages. They have little interest in how many hours of handwritten code it took to make the page in front of them work as it does. The one thing that interests the end user, even if it is corporate software, is the result.

Low Code is just simple, about complicated. To use Low Code there is no need to know all the programming languages or to be the fastest at typing handwritten code, because the methodology itself denies the use of handwritten code as a phenomenon.

The fact that Low Code is the future of the IT industry is evidenced by a list of its advantages over other programming methodologies. So, companies face a choice between the classic handwritten code and the following possibilities:

• Any employee of the company with basic knowledge can be engaged in software development


• A minimal entry threshold, which noticeably expands the range of specialists that can be involved in development


• Thanks to the trend to abandon handwritten code, Low Code systems have gained a powerful impetus. This means that in the near future such systems will be able to solve more complex problems and even bypass all the usual methods of performance.

The perspective and simplicity allowed Low Code to become not just a trend but a quite tangible future of the IT industry. But what awaits Low Code in the future and should we expect a complete rejection of the use of handwritten code in the near future?

Is Low Code capable of becoming a substitute for the handwritten code?

Given all the advantages, it is logical to assume that Low Code will be a full-fledged replacement for the handwritten code. In fact it is unlikely that this future awaits us.

The Low Code method has a lot of advantages over the classical development procedure. Using testing tools based on Low Code significantly speeds up the procedure of software development, design and analysis. Also, partial or full rejection of handwritten code enables companies to significantly lower the entry threshold for employees willing to participate in software development. However, Low Code is not a complete substitute for handwritten code, although some companies would disagree.

To understand what to expect from Low Code in the next year, it is necessary to look at the path of development of this methodology from a different angle - on behalf of those who have made Low Code first as a trainer and now the future.



Monday.com is a team that based its work on the principles of Low Code and gradually abandoned the use of handwritten code. When Eran Zinman and his team were founded, they had no actual concept of what their company would look like in the future. This caused some difficulties because investors are reluctant to sponsor projects that exist only in the authors' heads. "When we founded the company in 2013, there was no such thing as low-code or no-code," the co-founder recalls.



Despite all the difficulties Eran Zinman and his team still managed to convince investors and now Monday.com is one of the leading players on the market. Another specialist, Ed Makoski, also confirms the difficulties of implementing Low Code in the usual eco-system of programming. "If you go back five, six, seven years, a lot of developers... many of them were skeptical," says Ed Makoski, product manager of the Boomi integration platform. At the time, developers wanted to write all the code themselves but workloads are constantly growing and things have changed.

Contrary to all the difficulties, investors' mistrust and developers' adherence to standards, the Low Code methodology still managed to make a name for itself and become one of the main development trends in the whole industry. Now the companies which use the Low Code strategy or have completely abandoned the handwritten code, serve one of the four markets of the IT industry, depending on those for whom the tool was developed.



Low Code tools create for business, working with clients and corporate interaction within the organization. Thus, the Low Code methodology has evolved from an idea into an alternative view of development, which the giants are already interested in.

Saas giants from ServiceNow and Salesforce to Microsoft have launched their own low-code and no-code development functions. At the end of last year, there were "more than 200 low- and no-code startups, vendors and large companies in the market," notes Marcus Torres, vice president and general manager of App Engine, ServiceNow's low-code platform.

Interest in Low Code is growing by the day but where is the abandonment of handwritten code going to be in demand in the next year?

Top niches where Low Code will be in demand in 2023

Low Code offers developers unlimited opportunities to test and analyze software with a minimum amount of handwritten code. Simplified prototyping, accelerated development process and as a result, fast creation of new products, naturally attracts IT giants to use this very methodology.

In addition to simplifying the testing procedure, Low Code also provides unlimited opportunities for analytics. The combination of simplicity and unlimited potential has led to Low Code being used in the following areas in 2023:

Cloud technology

Cloud technology is the data processing and transmission method of the future. Even now, IT giants are using cloud storage and data transfer to share information in private and recoverable from any device. In addition to corporate usage, cloud technology has also made its way to users.

Among all software, ordinary users have access to cloud-based gaming services, movie viewing platforms, and music listening applications.



Like all elements of the IT industry - cloud data transfer does not stand still and each service under development requires scrupulous testing and analysis. The use of Low Code tools can help simplify the analytics analysis procedure.

Using a graphical interface for testing and analyzing software, Low Code tools can reduce the amount of time required to analyze a new system. Because of its simplicity, Low Code can be used not only by programmers but also by the company's employees. This means that all IT companies working on developing services and applications for cloud data transfer will now be able to involve all employees in the analysis of the finished products. This will significantly speed up the development process and the number of projects the company is able to handle simultaneously.

Down with the office - development in the comfort of your own home

The last few years have become a real test, not only for medical professionals but also for IT specialists and humanity in general. With the emergence of quarantine restrictions and the need to work from home, industry experts estimated the fall of the IT market at an average of 25%, but they were wrong.

Recent studies of the efficiency of the IT giants have shown that the transition of employees to work from home has reduced the efficiency of companies only by 12%, and only in the first two months, that is, during the adaptation period. After the adaptation programmers and analysts working from home, on the contrary, began to show better efficiency results.



This was due to the fact that, unlike working in the office, they had significantly more time to relax. In addition, the home environment was free of the pressures inherent in corporate companies, and therefore employees felt more confident and were able to do their jobs more effectively.

The latest data suggests that by 2023, the rate of employees working from home should rise to 48%. This means that employees will need tools to do their jobs that are simple and easy to understand, with no additional explanation required. Corporate software with a low entry threshold is a job for Low Code.

Right now, testing and analytics professionals are using tools on the Low Code platform to do their jobs. This trend is only expected to increase in proportion to the number of Low Code-based tools.

Web 3.0 development

Increasingly, users and experts hear about the development of Web 3.0, but only a few understand what exactly we are talking about.

Web 3.0 is a World Wide Web consisting of secure, decentralized services and blockchain. The idea is to rid the Internet of constant copies, to create the notion of originality on the World Wide Web, and to protect all user data as much as possible with methods similar to those used to store cryptocurrencies in users' wallets.



Web 3.0 also offers a different perspective on software development, including corporate software development. Using blockchain as a basic development principle will offer programmers entirely new possibilities with no specific limitations or boundaries. At the same time, using technology to rethink development and the World Wide Web as a whole will take a long time - and that's where Low Code comes in.

In the aspect of rethinking software development and using blockchain technology, Low Code can be an indispensable aid to specialists. Analysis of new Web 3.0 software will require more data for analytics than today's software. The move to Web 3.0 is guaranteed to make it more difficult to create new products without Low Code tools.