On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Ryan J. Salva <rsa...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Keep in mind that the answers are limited to the technologies that Stack > Overflow chooses to offer in their list of options. They have an "other" > option with a text box, but people's answers are largely driven by the > checkbox options. > > So, we somehow pissed off the Stack Overflow guys??? > > > Ryan J. Salva | Principal PM Manager > Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova > rsa...@microsoft.com > 425 706 5270 office > 206 612 5079 mobile > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Bowser [mailto:bows...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 5:21 PM > To: dev <dev@cordova.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Does Cordova have a problem making developers happy? > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Ryan J. Salva <rsa...@microsoft.com> > wrote: > > > As I told some of my co-workers today: > > > > If you read the fine print, the actual statistic is “% of developers > > who are developing with the language or tech but have not expressed > > interest in continuing to do so.” Clearly, it’s not a good list to be > > on, but developer behavior also doesn’t reflect their stated intent. > > NPM Stats show the number of Cordova downloads has actually doubled > > since the same time last year. > > > > Again, I don’t think this is a good list to appear on… I’m just not > > sure what to make of it given developer behavior. > > > > I'd rather be on that list instead of not be on any list. I'd be more > concerned with the fact that we're on the "Losers" section of the trending > tech with a 7% decrease in the number of questions, which indicate that > people either have no problems (not very likely) or are just giving up. I > haven't been answering questions on Stack for a while, mostly because > they're using some third party framework like ionic or something else. > > I also find it interesting that people are hating on Cordova, and not > PhoneGap, Ionic, Taco or the other distributions. > > > > > > > > Ryan J. Salva | Principal PM Manager Visual Studio Tools for Apache > > Cordova rsa...@microsoft.com > > 425 706 5270 office > > 206 612 5079 mobile > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Joe Bowser [mailto:bows...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 5:08 PM > > To: dev <dev@cordova.apache.org> > > Subject: Re: Does Cordova have a problem making developers happy? > > > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Jesse <purplecabb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Never trust people's answers when you ask them what they like! They > > > are almost always wrong, and will tell you what they think they > > > like, or think they will seem cooler if they liked. > > > > > > > > +1 > > > > It's interesting that CoffeeScript is on this list and that it passed > > Cordova in most dreaded. I also wonder what would happen if we went > > on the WordPress mailing list and talked about how people were so > > unhappy with WordPress. > > > > > > > > > > > On Mar 17, 2016, at 5:04 AM, julio cesar sanchez > > > > <jcesarmob...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > 2016 survey is out > > > > > > > > Most Dreaded technologies: > > > > > > > > Visual Basic 79.5% > > > > WordPress 74.3% > > > > Matlab 72.8% > > > > Sharepoint 72.1% > > > > CoffeeScript 71.0% > > > > LAMP 68.7% > > > > Cordova 66.9% > > > > Salesforce 65.4% > > > > Other 61.5% > > > > Perl 61.3% > > > > SQL Server & SQL 60.3% > > > > Objective-C 60.2% > > > > > > > > > > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%2f%2fsta > > > ck > > > overflow.com%2fresearch%2fdeveloper-survey-2016%23technology-most-lo > > > ve > > > d-dreaded-and-wanted&data=01%7c01%7crsalva%40microsoft.com%7c342aabb > > > 95 > > > ca84607ba2608d34ec16bfe%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata > > > =x SvTHrkLQ7Z4Z7CTctZ4rjFxaznfrPKVjqCkMzcUIpk%3d > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org > > > > > > > > >
