On Feb 14, 2006, at 9:25 PM, Troy Rollins wrote:
No, but I know that as a software developer, I often look at cool powerful applications, and if possible, determine what they were written with, what techniques they used... and if developers mention tools they used (in a blog, or whatever), I'll take a look at those tools, examine them for strengths, weaknesses, capabilities... and so on. It hadn't occurred to me that others don't do this. ;-\
It's simply not that relevant to what I do, especially looking at giants like Adobe. I don't intend to develop software like that. I'll concede that it might make me feel good knowing that 'it could' be done.
I wish I were so happy with any tool that I felt no need to constantly look at the alternatives, but so far, I've never seen that single tool. I constantly have to go to the "software depot" to keep my toolbox full.
I do this all the time as well. I've kept my eye on the ExtremeBasic development although I'm afraid it's not going anywhere fast. I'll be watching out for Codeline as well. Not only are new tools great, but so is simply good competition.
But so far I can't say that I've run into any alternatives yet which would make me feel more comfortable doing what I do than RB does. And I also know that I'm not even close to having maxed out my RB expterise and experience.
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