Hi,
I'm the author of that blog post.
Marketing guys asked me not to give numbers, but I hope they do not read
this mailing list :). So I can say that IntelliJ IDEA has several
thousand of active ActionScript/Flex developers who agreed to send
anonymous usage statistics to JetBrains and they run/debug Flash apps
hundreds of thousands times a month.
Unfortunately we do not know percentage of IntelliJ IDEA users who agree
to send anonymous statistics. If it is 10% then we have tens of
thousands of Flash developers, if it is 1% - there are hundreds of
thousands of them (which I doubt :) ). So, assuming that this percentage
is constant, we can only analyze trends.
Just checked statistics for January 2013 - there's incredible 35% growth
compared to December 2012!
According to the feedback my personal opinion is that most of new users
are not technology newbies, but they are looking for an alternative IDE.
--
Alexander Doroshko
IntelliJ IDEA Flash Team Lead
http://www.jetbrains.com
"Develop with pleasure!"
On 09.01.2013 22:06, Omar Gonzalez wrote:
It's nice to see it on the uprise, but there's no numbers. They could be
talking 10-20 users per month or thousands. Not to be a negative nancy but
I wonder what the actual numbers are.
-omar
On Wednesday, January 9, 2013, Nicholas Kwiatkowski wrote:
They are seeing the use of Flash/Flex actually go up since the beginning of
last year...
http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2013/01/how-is-flash-doing/
It might be a fact that people are dumping FB, or it might be a sign that
the community is getting stronger... Either way, I'm glad that we are
actually registering on their map ;)
Does anybody know if Apache keeps stats as to the package downloads?
-Nick
