Who should define your modeling language and code generators: Poll results
During the panel at Code Generation 2011 themed “Build or Buy: Who should develop your DSL and generators?” I had an opportunity as a panel chair to ask a view from the audience. A simple raise-your-hand poll seemed feasible for 44 persons. The question was shown to the audience and the totally unscientific research part can be listened here (2 min).
The poll showed that far the biggest group of people was those wanting to define their own modeling languages and code generators. No surprise being a poll at Code Generation conference.
The truth is that I was expecting to see more self-made man attitude. The opinion of the panel audience did not much differ from what we’ve seen earlier. For example, randomly selected software industry technology managers in Germany speaking Europe gave similar results. That study, made as a part of our market research, was much better conducted (random selection of participants, no influence from others, one-to-one call, n > 100 etc.). Perhaps the similarities among the opinions (shown side by side below) say something about the popularity of the choices or that there are not big differences among the Code Generation 2011 participants and rest of the world…
It was not discussed in the panel, but when looking from the perspective of metamodel-based tools all the options are still open and most importantly can be changed if needed.