David Beers schrieb:
I can't think of any good reason why someone who is already as familiar with
the Palm OS as you are, Tam, would want to stop developing for Palm OS now
Maybe the question is not "drop PalmOS development or not?", but more
like "drop single-OS development tools or not?"?
While CW gives a nice IDE, PODS being a free tool and HB++ offering
VB-like RAD, they are all limited to PalmOS only and do not offer any
cross-platform capabilities in case (for whatever reason) a solution
needs to be ported to a completely different OS.
So maybe instead of moving away from PalmOS development it might be a
better solution to move to any of the available cross-platform toolkits?
Disclaimer: Yes, apps done with cross-platform tools are usually slower
compared to 'native' apps, in most case they are bulkier and usually
they do not offer access to the 'low-level' functions of the OS (which
of course is a requirement for cross-platform development). But with
CPU-speed and memory increasing from generation to generation the first
two points are usually not that critical anymore and for most 'everyday'
apps low-level API-access is not needed.
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