Tag: poll
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MariaDB Plugins Beyond C++: What the Community Told Us
A few weeks ago, we asked a simple question:
Which language would you use to write MariaDB plugins?
The question related to MDEV-40189 (Support plugins written in various languages), an idea we introduced earlier this summer to lower the barrier to MariaDB plugin development by supporting languages other than C and C++.
The poll is now closed, and 2,090 people voted.
And the results are interesting.
Python and Rust lead, but there is no single winner
Python takes first place […]
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MariaDB Server GitHub branches: Moving to “main”
On the 3rd of July, two weeks ago, I created a poll to ask about the future of feature development branches in MariaDB Server. Specifically, whether we should switch to a rolling model which is more familiar to users of services such as GitHub.
The votes we received gave a very clear result. Today I will share the conclusions we drew, as well as setting expectations for what will happen next.
Recap: what is this “main” branch all about?
In […]
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What programming languages do your applications that communicate with MariaDB use?
MariaDB Foundation polls are an informal way to get feedback from our community. They’ve always been a bit hidden, but the most recent poll sat on the mariadb.org front page for a while, and got a healthy 5,225 votes.
It asked “What programming languages do your applications that communicate with MariaDB use?”, and here are the results:
How do we use these results? Without reading too much into them, as it is an uncontrolled internet poll after all, we use […]