Boosting community app development

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@PackElend

(there was even some exchange with NC two years ago)

See this State of app development topic from 2019, which was linked earlier in this thread from the Joplin dev. Post begins:

@laurent

I’ve started having a look at developing a Nextcloud app but the programming style makes it looks like it’s from the 90s with services/mapper/entity/queryBuilder, etc, very heavy OOP with ton of duplication when you want to add any service or controller, and lots of magical behaviour. You basically never know when something is going to work or not. Just keep trying and maybe your service will be magically auto-detected at some point.

Then I’ve tried asking for help on the dev forum but got no answer and I’ve noticed that there are only a few posts, many with no answers. In general searching online for a solution to a problem leads nowhere.

So app development in Nextcloud is neither very appealing (old school and heavy OOP), nor well supported. I’m wondering is it still something that Nextcloud is interested in? Or is it somewhat being deprecated in a favour of a new, perhaps more modern, solution?

Also in 2019, there was the TahoeLAFS plugin developer
There was also the TahoeLAFS plugin dev who was upset after being unable to find developer support
Snippet from that discussion:

I have developed a fairly large new application for Nextcloud with essentially no support from the Nextcloud community.

You have responded to my question with a link to a Nextcloud developer that has not responded to me or this thread.

You have marked this as a “solution” in your response.

Is there any support in this community for developers? If so, what process should I use to ask questions and actually get a response?