Saturday 15 November 2014

Devoxx 2014 - Whiteboard votes

As is traditional, the attendees of Devoxx vote on certain topics on whiteboards. Each result must be treated with care - there is no validation process, and only a fraction of the 3500 attendees actually bother to vote. Nevertheless, the results can be interesting.

What version of Java do you use at work right now?

A high level question focussed on Java at the day job. Java 8 hasn't surpassed Java 6 yet, but it is doing pretty well. Remember that Java 7 is End-Of-Life in April 2015!

Java 91
Java 863
Java 7160
Java 681
Java 511
Java 43
Java 31
Dalvik6
Other4


What IDE do you use?

A sense of how the IDE market is looking. The interesting data point is how Eclipse is falling - compare with 2008, where Eclipse led IntelliJ by almost 2 to 1, and NetBeans by almost 4 to 1. Sadly, the absolute number of votes is a lot lower than 6 years ago, so be careful with comparisons.

Eclipse36
NetBeans26
IntelliJ75
Vi/vim8
Other1

Beyond this, I heard various people comment on IBM's apparent withdrawal of funding for Eclipse IDE and what that might mean looking forward.

What JVM language are you using?

An attempt to see what languages people are using. Whenever this is asked, it is always an opportunity for advocates of a language to push hard, so again take the results with a good pinch of salt:

Java214
Scala64
Groovy62
Clojure15
Rhino/JS6
Ceylon3
Kotlin1
Cobol1


Is merging Scala into Java a good idea?

An odd question with a predictable answer - WTF!

Yes3
No26
WTF?! seriously?52
Depends2


What JavaScript framework/library do you use?

An open question that showed a clear dominance for Angular.

Angular51
Ember4
Reactive2
Backbone6
Knockout7
Angular-Dart3
Dojo5
JQuery9
Meteor2


Is this the end for Angular?

Angular 2.0 - "no migration path, not backwards compatible". Whether this is factually correct or not, this was the question asked.

Yes4
No47
Maybe12
Hate JavaScript24
Follow GWT1


What desktop UI technology have you used in the last 3 years?

A sense of where the desktop UI is today. Given that JavaFX has only been truly useful in Java SE 8, its not a bad showing for FX.

None39
Swing41
JavaFX15
MS .NET10
Chrome apps2
Eclipse RCP14
NetBeans platform2
QT5
VCL1
CLI4
OGLPHI1
Applet2
Broswer/HTML7


How do you create WebApps?

An open question on web technologies. Bear in mind that some options were added after others, notably JAX-RS+JavaScript, which was added long after REST+JavaScript. I think its fair to say that there are an odd mix of answers, but a clear leader in REST + JavaScript.

JSF+JavaEE44
REST+JavaScript101
JAX-RS+JavaScript9
Play23
Swing MVC76
Wicket26
JavaScript library50
Grails8
GWT30
Vaadin20
Apache Sling6
WebSockets+JavaScript6
Spray+AkkaHTTP6
Ruby on Rails2
ZK framework4
OmniFaces4
PrimeFaces10
REST+Dart2
Fluent-HTTP1
AngularJS23
Polymer3
By hand, with love2
Web motion3
Struts v1 or v211
Beehive2
JRuby3
Bootstrap2


What one thing would you add to Java (your top priority)?

A traditional Devoxx question, with a long shopping list of answers, as always. Note however that Brian Goetz indicated strongly that properties as a language feature is not happening.

Properties54
Better handling of null33
Multi-line strings33
Safe null dereference23
Interpolation of strings22
Immutability21
Value types16
Unsigned int11
Too bloated!8
Better logging7
Pattern matching8
Sub-package scope4
Tail recursion3
Solve expression problem2
Algorithmic data types2
Class versioning2
Cluster aware JVM1
Performance1
Free$ embedded support1
Inner functions1
Generators and co-routines1
Operator overloading1 (plus 2 minus 1 !)
Enterprise modularity1


Summary

Lots of interesting, and no doubt slightly dubious, statistics to examine. Use with care, and congratulations to the Devoxx team for another great conference!

1 comment:

  1. Under "How do you create WebApps?" the phrase "Swing MVC" should be "Spring MVC".

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