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To me, we don't need more numbers than the current ones we got. Download numbers, contributions numbers and their trends are reliable enough and easy to get often enough without 3rd party intervention to know whether we're doing relevant work.+1
And of course the best strategy is to get actually better. IntelliJ users used to claim that Eclipse is slow and memory hungry. As we have significantly improved in these areas they now like to point out their superior Java and text editor features, e.g. Quickfixes and Refactorings.
IMHO the main migration is currently from full featured IDEs to smaller solutions like VsCode. This affects all large IDEs. I think VsCode is now the cool tool and not IntelliJ anymore. For example, Google employees mostly demo Flutter development in VsCode.
I'm really happy that Eclipse leverages from the LSP based solutions and that VsCode reuses JDT for Java support.
That said maybe the Eclipse Foundation should do its own poll and try to make it as representative as possible?
I think it's hard to build such a poll and get representative votes. Specifically when a lot of people following the Fondation communication channels are specifically of Eclipse IDE users; you can't undo history ;)
To me, we don't need more numbers than the current ones we got. Download numbers, contributions numbers and their trends are reliable enough and easy to get often enough without 3rd party intervention to know whether we're doing relevant work.
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