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In recent times, there has been a flurry of activity around platform offerings targeted at users with little or development experience -- so-called "citizen developers" -- as well as still serving the needs of professional developers hard-pressed to deliver apps in extremely tight timeframes. This new generation of low-code and no-code platforms are designed to make it relatively easy for people to design, build, and launch applications quickly, without having to worry about the nuances of underlying operating systems or scalability requirements. Also:  Built on extended cloud-based Platfo...

Citizen development platform where everything looks like Excel Tim Anderson Tue 2 Mar 2021 // 16:30 UTC Share Copy Ignite Microsoft today introduced Power Fx, a low-code language for its Power Platform, but it is not altogether new, being extracted from the existing formula language for what the company calls canvas apps. The company has long been in search of some equivalent to Visual Basic for the cloud, that would allow non-programmers to piece together business applications. Microsoft settled on Power Apps as its primary solution. Power Apps is a composite of sever...

Credit: Microsoft Microsoft is continuing to try to make its Power Platform collection of low-code tools easier for non-programmers to use. The latest addition to the Power Platform stable looks to be a new low-code language called Power Fx. The Walking Cat dropped a hint earlier this week about something called "Power Fx." I believe Power Fx will be announced at Microsoft's Ignite virtual event the first week of March. Also: From what I've been able to glean, Power Fx will target a key Power Platform audience: Microsoft Excel users. The...