Here are my comments on the top 100 list. Well worth mentioning the punchline from Stackshare folks themselves: “This year we analyzed well over 11 million data points shared by you- the StackShare community- to bring you these rankings“. Impressive! So this is some real data we can comment on. We might be touching somehow on a relevant slice of reality.
New Tool of the Year (2022)
Astro, cool. Well deserved the first spot considering its value proposition. If your product relies on published content, why not use a tool that converts most of your website into plain HTML? It sounds like a clever idea from any possible angle you look at it. Minimize the use JS? Perfect. Go ahead and make things simpler. This is the future.
Back Office Tool of the Year (2022)
Gmail and Google Sheets. No doubt. “Give me an inbox and a spreadsheet and I’ll run any type business you like.” Would you challenge this assertion? Maybe not. Once you get the hang of using importrange() across your spreadsheets you realize you can build any type of internal app your business needs.
Data Store/Tool of the Year (2022)
MySQL! Well, impressive. PostgreSQL following close in second. Considering the licensing nuances involved in using an Oracle owned DB, I was expecting to see more dominance from PostgreSQL. I’m personally inclined to PostgreSQL after I understood how versatile this little beast can be at https://www.radicalsimpli.city/
Backend/Full Stack Framework of the Year (2022)
I’m surprised to see Django at the top.
I’m surprised to see Spring Bot in second.
I’m surprised to see Laravel not in the #1 place
I’m surprised to see Rails in this top 5. Hanging in there, bravely!
Payments Tool of the Year (2022)
PayPal nailed it it first. Surprising amidst the avalanche of complaints about account cancellations for non-obvious reasons leaving merchants with no options for revenue collection.
This is probably the most surprising top tool of the entire 2022 list.
I wasn’t expecting it to even to hit the top 5.
Support, Sales, and Marketing Tool of the Year (2022)
WordPress wins over Mailchimp and HubSpot. This is huge and I totally agree.
Forget about the blog tool. WordPress has long surpassed this archetype.
WP is a human interaction engine. It allows any business to set up an online infrastructure that responds to people’s actions.
On top of that, it is a content publication hub. POSSE