On 04/17/2013 01:02 PM, tedi tedi wrote:
How come qooxdoo is not as popular as GWT or ExtJS ?
That's a tough question to answer. You don't get much feedback from
people that decide against a technology ;-). It's also a question about
how you measure being popular. You could say popularity for a JS
framework is measured by the number of *developers* using it to create
applications. Being a deverloper tool that would be a decent measure of
popularity in my view. But you could also say it's the number of *users*
using applications written with qooxdoo. Wouldn't an application with a
million users speak towards the underlying framework?! And in the latter
respect I think qooxdoo doesn't fare that badly.
But even if you stick with the #developers measure - how do you assess
it?! Number of downloads of the SDK?! Number of queries on Google?! If
you e.g. look at Google Trends you will find that the number of queries
related to Perl have significantly decreased over the years. Does that
mean the number of developers has decreased, or fallen below all other
scripting languages? Or just that it has become so easy and common-sense
to go directly to the relevant information that fewer people need to
search for it?! Python and Ruby on the other hand have relatively stable
query counts over the last years. Does that mean their user bases have
stalled?!
Anyway, I would tend to think that there are fewer developers using
qooxdoo than GWT or ExtJS. With GWT it's easy to explain as GWT is a
strong web development platform for *Java* programmers. Alll shops with
Java skills would naturally slant towards GWT. I'm not so sure about
ExtJS. I don't think it is about technical merits (nor about marketing
efforts as some people have it). Rather, my impression is far fewer
people take a deeper look at qooxdoo. Maybe things like the name, the
class and developement model or the intertwining with the tool chain
alienate people on first sight, especially when they live west of the
Atlantic. Which is a catalyst market for many things in IT.
T.
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