I can say that I keep wanting to try the jetbrains IDE but haven't found the time to wrap my head around the different workflow. From everything I hear, once you get used to it, it's a superior IDE
brought to you by the letters A, V, and I and the number 47 On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Alexander Doroshko < alexander.doros...@jetbrains.com> wrote: > 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/<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 >>> >>> >
