Bringing visual languages to market: The OutSystems story

In 2001, OutSystems was created with the goal of helping enterprises deliver applications on time and on budget. In order to achieve this ambitious goal, we built a platform from scratch that transforms visual models into running enterprise grade applications. During this session, 1 will share how the market has grown around low-code plattorms supported by visual languages. I will also tell the story behind the OutSystems visual language, and how we collaborated with academia to evolve the language to face the challenges and tradeoffs of delivering unique productivity gains to our developers - without compromising performance, security and robustness. Finally, we'll look into the future and the challenges new types of users, like citizen developers, bring to a language. We'll also take a peek at how we can teach and guide users of visual languages to build high quality applications with the help of machine learning.