How do you feel about platforms that promise to deliver apps without coding? If you express some negative sentiment, then you’re like two-thirds of the customers Progress Software surveyed last year. Despite the bad feelings, a review of recent surveys shows that use of low-code platforms has increased and will continue to do so in the near future. The main reason is that the platforms kill two birds with one stone — they address long-standing development challenges that are holding back company-wide digital transformation efforts. However, it is important not to oversell the benefits, which are mostly associated with increasing the speed of development and less about allowing business units to innovate and create code themselves.
These bad feelings are not ill-informed because low-code environments are already in use by 80% of developers use a low-code or no-code application development environment according to a recent Evans Data survey. However, the same survey also found that only 9% of developers are using these environments at least 75% of the time. As low-code platforms increasingly become part of IT strategies, executives should remember that while these tools can democratize coding, the core audience for these products are skeptical professional developers that are likely to rely on their primary tools to for everyday coding.
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