It all depends on your definition of developer.
In context I think it meant code contributors.
To compare, think how many people use MySQL and how many of those are
on the mysql mailing list.
-Jim
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On Oct 22, 2009, at 11:01 AM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote:
On 22 Oct 2009, at 18:55, Georges Racinet wrote:
Glad to hear that :-) Didn't he mean that users of CouchDB are mostly
developers anyway, though ?
Dunno. I think it's a bit odd to suggest that CouchDB could ever be
for non-developers.
There's a lot of activity at the moment, from various sides, to make
CouchDB ubiquitous. UbuntuOne is a good example. But in the case
where a user is using CouchDB because it is used for some
application they have, that does not mean that they should care that
it uses CouchDB. SQLite is used by Mail.app, but that doesn't mean
that Mail.app users care about SQLite. CouchDB is a tool in your
toolchain so that you can build user applications. CouchDB itself is
not a user application. Again, if someone built a non-JSON GUI for
CouchDB, then that would be a user application - but the CouchDB
core is still just a tool. Maybe I'm talking shit. I'm sure I will
be corrected if I am.
