On Tue, Nov 26, 2013, at 03:45 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Alan Bourke > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > Have a look at the community edition of LiveCode, if you haven't > > already. > > > Can you give me the 3-minute elevator pitch instead? >
Not shilling for it or anything like, but I've been looking at it recently since they did a Kickstarter and went open source, so here are some bullet points: PRO - Dev tools (all-in-one IDE) are cross-platform and build native executables for Windows/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android from one code base. - No code/compile/run cycle. Just change the source or whatever, click into 'run' mode, changes immediately take effect. - Free to develop in for in-house apps. Commercial apps also, but you must supply source. - Database agnostic, simple built-in database access commands. - Very high-level, simple yet fully featured language (derived from Smalltalk/HyperCard). - Easy-ish to extend with plugins. Quite a large suite of third-party plugins. - Has a decent, inexpensive third-party report writing tool and ORM layer. - Backed by an original Apple founder. - Pretty good suite of samples, docs and an active forum. - Good suite of controls including a flexible grid. CON - Language and concepts may be a leeeetle bit too high-level and wordy, leading to inflexibility. Having said that they have a challenge running where they will develop any type of application thrown at them. - Language is more or less proprietary, so your VFP/C#/Java/JavaScript/Python is not good here. - IDE is ... OK, and proprietary, i.e. not Visual Studio or Eclipse-based. - Project metadata appears to be in a proprietary binary format, so I'm unsure about how well it works with source control. I think there are Git plugins for it though. - Does not currently deploy to web application of any kind. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
