This is interesting, and valuable, but it's basically polling the choir.
Can anything be done to encourage more users to adopt Firebird?
What might the results look like if you were to ask Oracle or MySQL or
PostgreSQL users?
I bet those results would be quite interesting.
On Jul 30, 2014, at 5:07 PM, Carlos H. Cantu wrote:
> I set up a new poll at www.firebirdnews.org to know what are the top
> languages used with Firebird, around the world.
>
> +300 votes so far, and Delphi is still the top one with 74% of the votes (it
> is a multi-choice poll, so user can select more than one language). I'm
> curious to see the diferences to previous poll (ran in 2008).
>
> Anyone can vote or check the results in the right sidebar in the mainpage of
> the site.
>
> What languages do you use with Firebird?
> Delphi (74%, 232 Votes)
> C# (19%, 59 Votes)
> PHP (17%, 54 Votes)
> FreePascal (14%, 43 Votes)
> Python (11%, 33 Votes)
> Java (10%, 32 Votes)
> C/C++ (9%, 27 Votes)
> Other (6%, 20 Votes)
> VB (3%, 9 Votes)
> Asp.net (2%, 7 Votes)
> VB.Net (2%, 7 Votes)
> Ruby (2%, 6 Votes)
> Perl (1%, 3 Votes)
> Objective-C (0%, 0 Votes)
> Total Voters: 314
>
> []s
> Carlos H. Cantu
> www.FireBase.com.br - www.firebirdnews.org
> www.warmboot.com.br - blog.firebase.com.br
>
>
> Re: [Firebird-devel] New Interface
> And what holds them from using Firebird, no matter what decision is made
> about the API?
>
> Good question. And what could be holding back everyone else?
>
> See the chart in the reference I posted earlier in this thread.
>
> The line from the movie "Field of Dreams" is especially true in open source,
> "If you build it [well] they [the users] will come."
>
> Point well taken on making problems for existing user base. I'm sure Oracle
> layered JDBC on top of OCI.
>
>
> I'll not discuss what language is better, since such discussions are useless
> and endless. Firebird just need to provide ways for the most used languages
> to access it, and so far, we are doing well in this aspect, since we have
> plenty of drivers for a good number of languages (Java included). Delphi
> still represents a large amount of our user base, so just make sure that any
> changes will not break or cause them any trouble.
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