On 09/20/2016 12:33 PM, Duft Markus
wrote:
Not really taking part in the XML Editor
discussion here, but please don’t underestimate the number
of PDE users! There are quite a lot of companies building
RCP applications.
Total amount of Neon packages downloaded so far: ~1.8 million
Eclipse Neon IDE for Eclipse Committers: 35530 downloads
Eclipse Neon for RCP/RAP developers: 9470 downloads
So currently, the PDE developers represent only 45000 people out of
1.8 millions in our community. That makes that Plugins/RCP
developers count for 3% of all Eclipse users.
Then now, let's consider the whole IDE market. Every developer is a
potential target for Eclipse IDE. This study
https://www.infoq.com/news/2014/01/IDC-software-developers estimates
29 millions developers worldwide, Eclipse IDE is estimated to get 8
millions users in best cases IIRC. So Eclipse IDE has 8/29 = 27%
marketshare on the whole IDE market (that's even too good to be
true, but let's keep optimistic numbers).
Finally, let's assume that Eclipse IDE captures 100% of the
population of Eclipse Plugin and RCP developers. Fair, isn't it?
That make that the population of RCP dev represents:
3% (of Eclipse community) * 24% (of proportion of Eclipse users
compared to the whole developer population) = 0.72% of the whole
developer population.
We should make choices aimed at improving comfort of only 0.72% of
our target.
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