Well, we just released Titanium Studio... with debugging. How's that for moving things forward? And sample projects and code are included, with a ton of new features coming in the full release later this quarter.
We have about 2,500 apps being built per month now. This number is increasing by about 50% month over month. In total, we have over 15,000 apps in the various app stores. That puts us as #1 go-to mobile development platform behind Apple and Google. Seriously.
Obviously, we'd love it if everyone was successful, but we're 50 people and running flat out. And that last round of $9M in funding? It's gone to QA, to acquiring Aptana, to adding 5 engineers in the past 6 weeks on Android, to quadrupling the amount of content out there (have you checked out our latest guides? They're awesome! http://wiki.appcelerator.org/display/guides/Home). There's a ton in there... and most have been written by the community!
Look, I'm not saying that we're perfect. We have LOTS to do. But we're a platform company that's listening intensely to developer needs on a very frequent basis and making big investments in the areas that need the most help.
So, yeah, Q&A needs a forum. Our API needs more parity, we certainly need to be more responsive to the 100 or so questions coming at us every day. But c'mon, if you're going to build a real native app in no time, a platform that has 3,600 methods and processes in use by 130,000 active app developers must have something going for it don't you think? Try Wunderlist. Try GetGlue. Try ScoutMob. These are all top apps written on Titanium with small dev teams. None of these apps were built with a support subscription, btw. Stick with it and you'll see just how much can be done with the platform.
Give us another shot with Titanium Studio and the other cool stuff that comes out this quarter. We'd love to see you back as a Titanium fan...
Thanks for your feedback. Certainly lots of issues that we can and do plan to address. On the tools side, as several people have mentioned below, we are releasing a new IDE this week called Titanium Studio. This release will address two critical areas that you identified in your post: debugging and overall tooling stability. The IDE itself is based on Aptana Studio, which has several years of solid development behind it. Sample projects, code completion, and other frequently-asked features will be included. Titanium Studio ships this week.
Certainly there are other areas in your post where we can improve. Know that we are making investments in all of the areas you describe and we certainly appreciate everyone's support as we grow the platform, the community, and the supporting infrastructure behind it.
We have about 2,500 apps being built per month now. This number is increasing by about 50% month over month. In total, we have over 15,000 apps in the various app stores. That puts us as #1 go-to mobile development platform behind Apple and Google. Seriously.
Obviously, we'd love it if everyone was successful, but we're 50 people and running flat out. And that last round of $9M in funding? It's gone to QA, to acquiring Aptana, to adding 5 engineers in the past 6 weeks on Android, to quadrupling the amount of content out there (have you checked out our latest guides? They're awesome! http://wiki.appcelerator.org/display/guides/Home). There's a ton in there... and most have been written by the community!
Look, I'm not saying that we're perfect. We have LOTS to do. But we're a platform company that's listening intensely to developer needs on a very frequent basis and making big investments in the areas that need the most help.
So, yeah, Q&A needs a forum. Our API needs more parity, we certainly need to be more responsive to the 100 or so questions coming at us every day. But c'mon, if you're going to build a real native app in no time, a platform that has 3,600 methods and processes in use by 130,000 active app developers must have something going for it don't you think? Try Wunderlist. Try GetGlue. Try ScoutMob. These are all top apps written on Titanium with small dev teams. None of these apps were built with a support subscription, btw. Stick with it and you'll see just how much can be done with the platform.
Give us another shot with Titanium Studio and the other cool stuff that comes out this quarter. We'd love to see you back as a Titanium fan...