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I don't think a visual regex debugger is a tiny market- it's every programmer who doesn't totally understand regex, or who will have regex that he needs help de
by _lex 13y ago
I don't think a visual regex debugger is a tiny market- it's every programmer who doesn't totally understand regex, or who will have regex that he needs help decoding. This is probably close to 99% of programmers.
- pc86 13y agoI think his point is the market overall. Yes it's a huge share of programmers, I'd say 80-90% for your first example 95%+ for your second. But compare that market to the market for Dropbox, or AirBnB, or Amazon. If you're market is "programmers" it's already a pretty minute fraction of the general population.
- patrickyeon 13y agoIf his market is "programmers who will pay for a regex debugger", it's probably much smaller than 99% of all programmers (and as a sibling comment pointed out, "programmers" are a much smaller market than many other).
- _lex 13y agoProgrammer market is ~12M. I agree that very few will pay though. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/453880/how-many-developers-are-there-in-the-world http://stackoverflow.com/questions/453880/how-many-developer...
- dogweather 13y agoYes, but: I can't remember the last time u wrote a comes reflex. I've since learned to use an xpath parser, for example.