I personally know at least a dozen devs who seriously tried NetBeans again (most moving from Idea) after the move to the ASF got announced! And that's just from the few people I spoke to. I would not underrate the impact, but ofc it might still be a sample issue.
LieGrue, strub > Am 10.04.2017 um 12:50 schrieb Emilian Bold <[email protected]>: > > I'd say it's a sign of a non representative sample of IDE users. > > The StackOverflow survey puts NetBeans at a steady 8-9% in 2017 ( > http://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017 ) and 2016 ( > http://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2016 ). It seems we grew a bit in > 2017. > > I doubt the Apache move (which started late 2016) has any impact. > > If anything, I suspect the incubation will have a negative impact short > term due to the mailing list reshuffling, forum closing, websites moving, > etc, etc. > > > --emi > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Mark Struberg <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Sorry, forgot to add the 2nd link >> >> http://www.baeldung.com/java-in-2017 >> >> LieGrue, >> strub >> >> >>> Am 10.04.2017 um 12:36 schrieb Mark Struberg <[email protected] >>> : >>> >>> Hi folks! >>> >>> Got some tweet about a Java survey today and catched a very interesting >> thing. >>> >>> >>> Those are the numbers from the 2016 survey (2200 votes in summary): >> NetBeans 5.9% (133 votes) >>> http://www.baeldung.com/java-ides-2016 >>> >>> And now the 2017 numbers (4439 votes in summary) : 12.4% (549 votes). >>> >>> I can only guess what caused this heavy increase of new users. >>> Might it be caused by the move to real open governance? >>> Or something else I missed? >>> >>> LieGrue, >>> strub >>> >> >>
