New Java Vote/Poll and the Results From Last Week's Polls
posted Saturday, 6 May 2006
I am closing the voting on the two polls and below are the results. I am revving up a new poll on what area of Java people are working in. Whenever, I see a show of hands after a talk on who is doing serverside, desktop, mobile, etc...the results are always intriguing. I am always surprised by how many developers are doing desktop Java. You can find the new poll on the left sidebar under "Visitor Poll". Take a minute and vote.
Recent (Archived) Votes :
The first poll was very popular with 155 people participating. On the question "Software development environments (IDEs) like NetBeans, Eclipse, IDEAS, JDeveloper and BlueJ can be used for many things. What do you use yours for ?" The overwhelming number of respondents, 94%, said they used it for Java. Second place was a tie with "C/C++" getting 3% and "I don't use an IDE" getting 3%. Sad to say, "Dynamic and Scripting Languages" didn't get any votes" (its still early - we will see what that looks like in a year). This is interesting because NetBeans and Eclipse both support C/C++ environments - so the question is why aren't there a few more developers doing C/C++ ? On the other hand, it is still early for dynamic languages - we can take the pulse a year from now - perhaps it will be different.
| Software development environments (IDEs) like NetBeans, Eclipse, IDEAS, JDeveloper and BlueJ can be used for many things. What do you use yours for ? I use my IDE primarily for : |
% |
| Java |
94% |
| C/C++ |
3% |
| I don't use an IDE. |
3% |
| Dynamic or Scripting Language |
0% |
155 participants voted.
The results for the second poll question, "Do you work within a company that has Visual Basic and VB.NET developers ? If yes, have you ever tried to get them to look at Java ?" had 39 participants. This was pretty interesting. Actually quite nice results. A large percentage either crossed the Java threshold themselves and then helped others or Java developers were helping others to migrate to Java. Here are the results :
| Do you work within a company that has Visual Basic and VB.NET developers ? If yes, have you ever tried to get them to look at Java ? |
% |
| Yes, I showed them my IDE - but they simply thought it was to big a jump. |
38% |
Yes, I have had success and today one or more are using Java.
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38% |
| I used to be a VB/VB.NET developer, today I use Java and have showed other VB/VB.NET developers Java. () |
13% |
I used to be a VB/VB.NET developer and today I develop in Java.
|
8% |
| I would never try it - to big a learning challenge. |
3% |
39 participants voted.
"NetBeans uses the term 'module' and Eclipse uses the term 'plugin' They mean the same thing. Which do you prefer ?" is over. The term 'plugin' was more popular with 45%, followed by 'module' with 30% and 'It really doesn't matter' was 26%. 128 votes were cast. It was very close and it suggests that it probably doesn't matter. Myself, I prefer the term 'plugin' - because it has been widely used in software prior to IDEs - but in the end it probably doesn't matter.
| NetBeans uses the term 'module' and Eclipse uses the term 'plugin' They mean the same thing. Which do you prefer ? |
% |
| Plugin |
45% |
| Module |
30% |
| It really doesn't matter |
25% |
128 participants voted.
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