which were all high-coding, 13%; mostly high-coding with some low-code tooling, 36%; an even mix of low-code tooling and high-coding, 31%; mostly low-code tooling with some high-coding, 14%; all low-code tooling, 2%; and don’t know, 4%. Figure 6 Low-Code’s Place In Ideal Future Approaches To Software Development This shows responses to the question, ‘What is your organization’s ideal approach to software development in the future?’

Gives companies a core platform for enterprisewide development. The core platform capabilities in most AppGen platforms (e.g., low-code visual creation of applications) are very mature. Many vendors in this category have had platforms in the market for quite some time. The newer core platform focus areas are in orchestration, management, and security of AI agents. AppGen And Low-Code Platforms Market Maturity And Key Dynamics The AppGen and low-code platforms market is an emerging market.

Low-Code Is Everywhere

Development Speed, Efficiency, And Citizen Dev Are Some Top Goals For Low-Code This shows responses to the question, ‘What was your organization’s goal(s) for adopting a low-code platform?’

Both AppGen platforms and agentic software development tools like GitHub Copilot, Anthropic Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, and OpenClaw are automating and simplifying the SDLC through code generation, documentation generation, and bug fixes.

The former sentiment will continue to affect the competitive dynamics of low-code and the enterprise software market generally for the foreseeable future; application generation will kill the latter. Despite being slower in low-code adoption, European developers hold the most positive view of low-code’s future, with 46% citing an even mix of low-code and high-code, mostly low-code, or all low-code as their firm’s long-term ideal for custom software development.

However, high-code development is not going anywhere anytime soon. Forrester’s Developer Survey, 2023, provides clear points on this topic in North America and Europe. Low-Code Has Been Institutionalized In North American IT Eighty-eight percent of North American developers use low-code platforms for at least some of their work, and 50% spend half or more of their development time using low-code (see Figure 1).

Low-Code Is Becoming Mainstream — But We’re Still Writing Lots Of Code Forrester coined the term “low-code” in 2014 to describe platforms that provided visual, declarative tools to deliver custom software. Since then, the category has matured to become a common approach to application development and is key to the future of generative AI for software development and software generally. But high-code development is not going away anytime soon.

There’s a lot of noise right now about what generative technology can do in enterprise software development for applications and workflows. Depending on who you ask, it’s either the end of software developers — or just another overhyped shift. Let’s cut through the noise. We Started With The Low-Code Revolution Low code was a revolution. […]

The application generation (AppGen) and low-code platforms market is evolving faster than most organizations can absorb. As AI expands, who can build software and how quickly it can be created has presented a new challenge for organizations to confront: scaling development with agentic capabilities without losing control. Why Does This Market Transition Matter? AppGen and […]