Well, if there is any conclusion you can get from this is that 87% of
respondents are working in Pascal and hence the importance of ensuring
that a suitable language binding is available for Pascal. But, even
though I am a strong advocate of Pascal, I also use PHP and C++ with
Firebird, and I would be the first to argue that Pascal is not the only
language that needs to be supported.
Regardless of which language is the most used, the Firebird API should
be programming language neutral, and while such surveys are very
interesting they should not be used to argue that support of one
programming language is more important than another.
On 30/07/14 22:07, Carlos H. Cantu wrote:
> Re: [Firebird-devel] New Interface I set up a new poll at
> www.firebirdnews.orgto 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
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>
> 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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