size of XQuery developer community

[bryan rasmussen]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:39 AM, Daniela Florescu<http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk> wrote:
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>>> How did other languages/communities solve this kind of growing pain ?
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>>> Any suggestions ?
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Write applications in XQuery and open source them, the problem there
is that there isn't enough standardization of the server side XQuery
engines for most of what you want to do (yet) so that in effect you
are to a certain extent growing an implementation not just the
language if you do this.

As an example, one reason PHP,Python grow is that there are
significant application written in them that people want to integrate
into their suites of applications and make things work together. In
doing this integration you need to learn some configuration about the
application, but maybe you also have to learn some of the language to
make the application work with your stuff. sooner or later you know
enough of the language and you might choose to use it for something
because you realize that the task and the language are a good fit.

This is different than just making things in XQuery and showing I made
X in very little time, because people will often just say I can make X
in my language. They have to have the application, and the application
has to be significant enough that they are not going to want to remake
it in their language of choice.

Best Regards,
Bryan Rasmussen