Cordova is the most hated form of Mobile Development, because everyone can create a Cordova app, and the quality of most Cordova applications is absolutely terrible. If you're inheriting a Cordova application from another company, you're probably going to end up re-writing it and if you're an iOS or Android shop, re-implementing it natively because that's what you're more comfortable with.
And I'm perfectly OK with that. Wordpress and LAMP stacks aren't going away any time soon, and both those technologies share the same property that anyone can create a shitty website. We've been called the Drupal of development for a reason, and at the time we were called that, I took it as an insult because I think Drupal is shitty (I once inherited a bad Drupal project). I don't think we should care what developers say in a survey, since most developers are terrible anyway. We should just make sure that what we're releasing isn't terrible. On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 8:03 AM Treggiari, Leo <leo.treggi...@intel.com> wrote: > The data below is from a StackOverflow Developer Survey ( > http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015). > > Most Dreaded technologies: > Salesforce 73.2% > Visual Basic 72.0% > Wordpress 68.2% > Matlab 65.6% > Sharepoint 62.8% > LAMP 62.2% > Perl 59.2% > Cordova 58.8% ************** > Coffeescript 54.7% > Other 57.3% > % of devs who are developing with the language or tech but have not > expressed interest in continuing to do so. > > Any ideas on what the problem is? Here are some possible answers. I'm > not suggesting that any of these are true, but rather looking for feedback > from those who have heard developers express frustration with Cordova: > > > * There is no problem - unclear question led to the answer > > * The problem is really about creating native apps in JavaScript + > HTML5 > > * Cordova CLI has a quality problem (learnability | usability | > reliability) > > o Too hard to set up development environment > > o The command CLI is too complicated > > o Not enough learning material (documentation, articles, books) > > o Too many bugs > > o Changes too frequently > > Leo > >
