I tend to agree with Troy. I wrote a complex imaging app for the
lab, which could not have been possible without Xcode: RB is just too
slow (why it can't be just as fast as C I don't know. Array access,
math ops and logical comparisons should be compiled to identical
binaries, no?). I can't imagine doing an FFT in RB. I find myself
prototyping complex image manipulations in RB, then porting the most-
used ones to C for speed (and the speed increase you gain is
substantial).
Then there are the endless GUI quirks that never seem to get fixed.
I admire those of you who rely on RB to actually make a living. I
would be driving myself insane trying to keep my app polished and
professional-looking if i relied on RB only for my income.
I say this because I think RB is a great tool, that could become the
de facto dev tool of choice for Mac developers if the bugs and
instabilities were fixed. But in my experience anyway, every release
is 2 steps forward and inevitably one step back. Maybe all dev tools
are like that.
The RB concept is outstanding tho. It just seems that new features
always take priority over bug and stability fixes. And this cycle
will likely never end (let's see what happens with RB for Intel, and
Cocoa).
Peter.
On 13-Feb-06, at 11:36 PM, Troy Rollins wrote:
And Xcode, is one of those tools. And that was the crux of my
point. To date, at least, people develop the world's killer apps in
Xcode (etc.), not RealBasic.
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Professor of Medicine(Neurology), Senior Scientist
Ottawa Health Research Institute, Div. of Neuroscience
Ottawa Hospital / University of Ottawa
Ontario, CANADA
tel: (613)761-5444
fax: (613)761-5330
http://www.ohri.ca/profiles/stys.asp
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