BTW: The last one was a joke. But in all honesty, we should all spend a bit more time on Stack seeing what's going on there with our respective products/distributions.
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Joe Bowser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Ryan J. Salva <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Keep in mind that the answers are limited to the technologies that Stack >> Overflow chooses to offer in their list of options. They have an "other" >> option with a text box, but people's answers are largely driven by the >> checkbox options. >> >> > So, we somehow pissed off the Stack Overflow guys??? > > > >> >> >> Ryan J. Salva | Principal PM Manager >> Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova >> [email protected] >> 425 706 5270 office >> 206 612 5079 mobile >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Joe Bowser [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 5:21 PM >> To: dev <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Does Cordova have a problem making developers happy? >> >> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Ryan J. Salva <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > As I told some of my co-workers today: >> > >> > If you read the fine print, the actual statistic is “% of developers >> > who are developing with the language or tech but have not expressed >> > interest in continuing to do so.” Clearly, it’s not a good list to be >> > on, but developer behavior also doesn’t reflect their stated intent. >> > NPM Stats show the number of Cordova downloads has actually doubled >> > since the same time last year. >> > >> > Again, I don’t think this is a good list to appear on… I’m just not >> > sure what to make of it given developer behavior. >> > >> >> I'd rather be on that list instead of not be on any list. I'd be more >> concerned with the fact that we're on the "Losers" section of the trending >> tech with a 7% decrease in the number of questions, which indicate that >> people either have no problems (not very likely) or are just giving up. I >> haven't been answering questions on Stack for a while, mostly because >> they're using some third party framework like ionic or something else. >> >> I also find it interesting that people are hating on Cordova, and not >> PhoneGap, Ionic, Taco or the other distributions. >> >> >> > >> > >> > Ryan J. Salva | Principal PM Manager Visual Studio Tools for Apache >> > Cordova [email protected] >> > 425 706 5270 office >> > 206 612 5079 mobile >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Joe Bowser [mailto:[email protected]] >> > Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 5:08 PM >> > To: dev <[email protected]> >> > Subject: Re: Does Cordova have a problem making developers happy? >> > >> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Jesse <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > Never trust people's answers when you ask them what they like! They >> > > are almost always wrong, and will tell you what they think they >> > > like, or think they will seem cooler if they liked. >> > > >> > > >> > +1 >> > >> > It's interesting that CoffeeScript is on this list and that it passed >> > Cordova in most dreaded. I also wonder what would happen if we went >> > on the WordPress mailing list and talked about how people were so >> > unhappy with WordPress. >> > >> > >> > > >> > > > On Mar 17, 2016, at 5:04 AM, julio cesar sanchez >> > > > <[email protected]> >> > > wrote: >> > > > >> > > > 2016 survey is out >> > > > >> > > > Most Dreaded technologies: >> > > > >> > > > Visual Basic 79.5% >> > > > WordPress 74.3% >> > > > Matlab 72.8% >> > > > Sharepoint 72.1% >> > > > CoffeeScript 71.0% >> > > > LAMP 68.7% >> > > > Cordova 66.9% >> > > > Salesforce 65.4% >> > > > Other 61.5% >> > > > Perl 61.3% >> > > > SQL Server & SQL 60.3% >> > > > Objective-C 60.2% >> > > > >> > > > >> > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%2f%2fsta >> > > ck >> > > overflow.com%2fresearch%2fdeveloper-survey-2016%23technology-most-lo >> > > ve >> > > d-dreaded-and-wanted&data=01%7c01%7crsalva%40microsoft.com%7c342aabb >> > > 95 >> > > ca84607ba2608d34ec16bfe%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata >> > > =x SvTHrkLQ7Z4Z7CTctZ4rjFxaznfrPKVjqCkMzcUIpk%3d >> > > >> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >
