{"id":1351,"date":"2009-03-13T16:18:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T00:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2009-03-13T16:18:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T00:18:45","slug":"what-makes-a-good-developer-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2009\/03\/what-makes-a-good-developer-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a good developer platform?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Nick Nguyen, the Add-ons Lead at Mozilla.\u00a0 The add-ons team has been working closely with Labs on how extension development could be better and we&#8217;re approaching this problem from multiple angles, in terms of both improving the experience of the existing platform as well as nurturing new extension developers.<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of welcoming new developers to our ranks, consider this question: if you&#8217;re a potential extension developer but for whatever reason haven&#8217;t gotten around to creating the Next Great Extension, we&#8217;d like to know what we can do to help.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the survey we&#8217;ve created and let us know what you like and don&#8217;t like about those platforms.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll use this feedback to guide our thinking around how we can make development easier, more fun, and more rewarding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveygizmo.com\/s\/113476\/new-developer-survey\">New Developers Survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In true Mozilla fashion, we&#8217;ll share our findings with you here on the Labs blog, and we look forward to hearing your thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Nick Nguyen, the Add-ons Lead at Mozilla.\u00a0 The add-ons team has been working closely with Labs on how extension development could be better and we&#8217;re approaching this problem from multiple angles, in terms of both improving the experience of &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2009\/03\/what-makes-a-good-developer-platform\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4863],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}