/Transpile to .js/ Rich Hassler modified Feltman's F1's code generator to create JavaScript forms, and it works surprisingly well (though not perfect). Of course that's only the UI but if everything is separated you can keep the back end on Fox and make web calls.
I'm trying to persuade him to come to SWFox and demo it. Eric On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Paul Hemans <paul_hem...@laberg.com.au> wrote: > I think everyone should be aware that Anders Hejlsberg (Turbo Pascal, > Delphi and C#) is now on Typescript. This speaks volumes. In my opinion, > the future is in the browser. Projects like asm.js, webassembly and in > particular WebGL with ,three.js or babylon.js, are going to blindside > desktop apps. > I am quite literate in C#, still use VFP daily but the future "platform" is > JS. I just wish some people would team up to make a dBase-esque language > that could transpile to JS. In the context of the client (browser, > electron, Cordova) it makes sense if you treat data as cursors, on the > server (node.js) it makes sense as a database backend. > But what JS gives you with asynchronous calls, it takes away with the added > code complexity due to callbacks. However, with JS Promises things have > started to change. Regardless, as a business rules specific language JS is > not as readable as VFP. So I think that a transpiler would be awesome. One > can only hope. > > On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Darren <fox...@ozemail.com.au> wrote: > > > I know of a bank that spent upwards of 30M trying to port a VFP app, that > > had been developed over 15+ years with a group of developers, to .NET - > > all got dumped. 30M+ wasted. Back to using VFP for now. Not suggesting it > > can't be done but in this case an extreme amount of business logic in the > > app and the task is mammoth. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of > Kevin > > Cully > > Sent: Friday, 6 October 2017 6:44 AM > > To: profoxt...@leafe.com > > Subject: Re: [NF] learn more about what you hate so much. > > > > I worked for a company that produced Real Estate software for the > > commercial side of things. We had a national client that said they were > > leaving our product to develop a new .NET solution with another company. > > > > They returned after 1.5 years and after spending $2.1M. They started > > asking us for enhancements again. Ouch. > > > > I'm figure throwing away a working system *may* work, but most likely > it's > > an expensive lesson to someone. > > > > > > On 10/05/2017 01:25 PM, Bill Anderson wrote: > > > Kevin, > > > > > > At our user group we were told by a Microsoft representative (well > known > > to > > > the Fox community) that Dell was throwing away all their internal > > > applications **sight unseen** to rewrite them in the beta version of > .NET > > > 1.0. > > > > > > I wonder how that turned out? > > > > > > Bill Anderson > > > > > >>> For 20 years now, Microsoft has been telling me that I've been > > developing > > > with an inferior tool and that .NET is better. Is it ready now?<< > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 6:45 AM, Kevin Cully < > > kcu...@cullytechnologies.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > >> For 20 years now, Microsoft has been telling me that I've been > > developing > > >> with an inferior tool and that .NET is better. Is it ready now? > > >> > > >> I think I'll stick with Foxpro and now Xojo for developing business > > >> solutions. > > >> > > >> I don't hate .NET. I'm just going to continue to ignore it. > > >> > > >> > > >> On 10/04/2017 11:01 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: > > >> > > >>> This is the 2017 .NET Conference Keynote > > >>> > > >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yecu4g5JYB8 > > >>> > > >>> It has morphed from the .NET you all hated so much 15 years ago. > They > > >>> show > > >>> working in Chrome and not Bing. > > >>> > > >>> the beginning goes over NuGet if you are unfamiliar with posting > > packages > > >>> to it. > > >>> > > >>> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com 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/caawxvummau+ip3urhyldifecqtzdlx2bkuhccjg8c-nrg5f...@mail.gmail.com ** 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.
