From: Norman Palardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:02:36 -0800
On Feb 14, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Brad Rhine wrote:
On Feb 14, 2006, at 3:49 PM, Troy Rollins wrote:
Yet, a true blockbuster app has never been produced in RB. Why is
that? Maybe because of its cross-platform nature? Maybe because of
its lack of tools for development teams? For whatever reason, it
hasn't been done.
Not to prolong this thread, but why is this an issue? I don't care
(in
general) what other people have done with RB; I care about what *I*
can do with RB.
Some people care that a tool is general purpose enough to write the
next Photoshop (or whatever).
That it's general purpose enough to be applied to nearly ANY project.
Desiring such a thing usually relegates one to C/C++ or some other
similar low level language.
Lots of "killer apps" are written in Obj-C or Obj-C++. But that's
mostly because Obj-C does not stop you from using C++!
Now, if RB had full C++ compatability (as easily as Obj-C does), we'd
be rocking.
Really, you cannot get away from needing proper low level power, any
language that removes that limits itself. Perl is great for certain
tasks, but you can't write a photoshop in Perl. Obj-C on the other
hand, yes, because it's just a superset of C.
As for the other guy writing a nice wrapper with RB, yeah that's
great. But the guts were done probably in C++, they weren't done in
RB. Wrapper apps are really on the same level as a utility.
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