[xquery-talk] size of XQuery developer community

[Michael Kay]

I am not sure google trends at present is a good indicator of XQuery's
uptake as searches across all major programming languages has slumped over
the past 12 - 18 months. Personally I am more inclined to link this to the
current economic downturn. Perhaps as the economy improves and purse string
are loosen developers might take more of a chance in suggesting alternatives
to their heads of IT. 
 
 
I think it's very hard to draw conclusions from Google trends on anything.
Look at "terrorism" or "crime", for example. I suspect that one effect is
that as the number of web pages on a topic increases, people have to use
more selective search terms to get useful results. In the early days of XML,
"XML" was a useful search term; it isn't any more.
 
Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 

 

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