On: What happened to CouchDB's popularity?

[wavephorm]

Things like adding users, and restricting a database to particular users, was a nightmare to figure out.

When trying to enter a view, you need to quote and escape your code and put it all on one line. It's really bad, no novice would even know how to do this properly. I had to write my own little slash/escape tool to do it right.

[rdtsc → wavephorm]

I agree those are valid deficiencies. Some highlighting and code formatting for views would be good.

Maybe a plugin interface for other syntax parsers, since, for example we use a python view server instead of a JS one.

I am still wondering what NoSQL databases have a better admin UI. I feel that Futon is pretty good and was a factor in picking CouchDB over others.

[cemerick → wavephorm]

There's a dedicated view editor that provides standard textareas for editing map and reduce view functions, with a set of results shown below.

Once you've clicked into a database in Futon, choose a view to inspect/edit using the dropdown in the upper-right. Couldn't be easier, really.