The 21st century is presented as the Digital Age, where a large part of our daily activities: both personal and work will be carried out through applications, platforms, or web portals.

Many of these solutions are already part of our daily life, revolutionizing the economy, simplifying problems, and automating processes. However, the-re is still a lot to do to achieve a 100% digital society; mainly because the development or access to the code, which is the fundamental tool to create applications, is difficult to access. Developing applications is mostly creati-ve work rather than technical, so the knowledge to generate web solutions should not be an asset that only belongs to IT professionals, but should be open for anyone to program.

Applications respond to everyday problems, and they need the vision of their users. Therefore, it is essential that "thinkers" or "creators" can also be developers. In addition, in the face of this challenge, and for several years now, Low Code platforms have been opening a gap to democratize the creation of solutions.

Low Code is a development method based on a visual model, using fewer lines of code so that the creator can manage elements and not characters. This makes the programming process easier so that a person without great technical knowledge can generate a robust, secure, and scalable solution.

Added to this is the main value of this model: speed. Low Code allows you to launch a solution in less time. How do you achieve this? Easy, it does not start from scratch, parts of the code are generated automatically, which traditionally only adds hours of work without value, or you can use templates or parts of code from other solutions, so you can put together several pieces to form a new solution. Hence, this model is associated with Legos.

This method of "stacking blocks" allows that the technical level is not a factor to develop better or worse a solution, since Low Code is in charge of giving it the robustness, security or integration that the application needs, so the developer only focuses on design and usability. This translates into great benefits for companies of all sizes.

Think of the small and medium sized companies around the world, which can even invoice millions of dollars or euros and still use Excel to keep their inventory, invoices, or contracts. With Low Code, they would eliminate the digital gap they have with their larger competitors because with the team they have they can create solutions that automate their processes that do not add value to their company, but take hours off their employees.

The same is true for governments and large companies, whose departments need specific solutions that improve their performance and eliminate manual tasks. Instead of the department going to the central IT team and asking for a solution and them adding it to the request box, the department itself, with its resources, can create its application, which will respond to what they need and can be integrated, without affecting the operation of the Core System.

In addition, there are the entrepreneurs, who have the application of their dreams in their minds but see that setting up a programming team requires a very large pile of money. Low Code eliminates that barrier because with a single programmer you can build that solution that has years saved in the drawer of ideas.

During the more than 20 years that I have worked in the world of Low Code, even before it was baptized with that name, many IT professionals question me or recriminate me, because I wanted to end their profession. Besides, it is not what I am looking for, the programmer or developer profession is important, but they should focus on creating other kinds of even more complex solutions, for example, a Low Code platform that democratizes development.

The present and future of the digital world are about the democratization of web development. Low Code is the ideal tool for this, what we must work on is that history does not repeat itself, and a great innovation remains in the hands of large companies, which will continue to delay the Digital Age 100%. We have to work so that anyone can develop.