10 years in apps script

[Bruce Mcpherson]

As we approach 10 years since Apps Script was released, I've written a little post about its evolution.

https://excelramblings.blogspot.com/2019/06/2019-decade-in-apps-script.html

[Romain Vialard]

Thanks Bruce!

Your conclusion made me investigate the impact of all the new security measures imposed upon add-on creators over the health of the marketplace. I summarized it in post:

G Suite editor add-ons — more security for users, more work for developers, better marketplace?

[Bruce Mcpherson]

Good article. Thanks for that. 

I think it’s hard to reach a conclusion including historical  addons though. For example I have a bunch of add ons in the store that I haven’t bothered to remove, won’t be migrating to the marketplace, are not installable any more, I’m not supporting, but presumably are still usable by some who installed them before I’ve heard from other developers who have done the same. Presumably you’d still count those as active, even though they are effectively dead.

I guess the important measure is how many are now in the new marketplace home, versus how many were in the chrome store and evaluating their evolution over time, laid against the increase in g suite penetration and the historical increase in addons to get a true picture.. I may be wrong, but I can’t imagine that those developers that were previously willing to spend some time publishing free addons would be that keen now.

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 5:54 PM Romain Vialard <romain....@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Bruce!

Your conclusion made me investigate the impact of all the new security measures imposed upon add-on creators over the health of the marketplace. I summarized it in post:

G Suite editor add-ons — more security for users, more work for developers, beetter marketplace?

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[Alan Wells]

Very good post.  Apps Script is currently undergoing some major evolutionary changes.  If we make an analogy to the earths' evolutionary process, some things didn't survive catastrophic events.  Google is making the changes needed to survive the meteor impact, so that they don't suffer the fate of the dinosaurs.  So which way do we bet?  Survival or destruction?  Will Apps Script live on or not?  It will live on if management at Google, finds a way to help the engineers fix the Apps Script bugs.  Bugs kill.  Don't underestimate the power of those little bugs.  The mightiest warrior can't survive the plague.  Don't let the bugs turn into a plague Google.  Fix the damn bugs!

[Adam Morris]

I was interested to see AppMaker mentioned. The GUI is much easier to build with AppMaker and the power of apps scripts is still available. There isn’t a way to publish them like in a marketplace, so it’s still quite a young environment, but one worth watching. 

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[Romain Vialard]

@Bruce, yes that's what I was saying at the end, some add-ons are no longer installable (Google blacklisted their client ID because they didn't bother to follow the verification process) but are still listed in the store.

And the migration to the G Suite Marketplace won't fix that fully. Some add-ons are already listed in the G Suite Marketplace but are no longer installable due to a blacklisted Client ID - eg: SuperQuiz: https://gsuite.google.com/marketplace/app/super_quiz/748877047681

It's hard to list them without trying to manually install each one. I could try to use the evolution of the number of users: if some add-ons are only losing users - no new acquisition - then there's a high chance that nobody can install them.

[Michael O'Shaughnessy]

I have an an issue with App Maker... Google did make it available to GSuite for Education users BUT they removed the support for "Google Drive Tables"!!!  If they had left that in it would have been the perfect replacement for Access!!!  They would have finally "replaced" everything that is offered by Microsoft Office!

BUT, with everything else Google gives away for "free"... I can't really complain too much....

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