I've been away from writing to the lists for a while- but I just
thought I'd chime in here. I think REALbasic is at the cusp of great
things. Why?
RS has faced many difficult transitions that involve total overhauls
to significant pieces of code lately. Some of which they had control
over, some that they did not. As any of us in the software world
know, these sorts of overhauls can be the enemy to the eventual goal
of consistency and stability. These include:
-OS 9 to OS X
-Old compiler to new compiler
-Linux framework
-IDE written in CodeWarrior to IDE written in RB
-All of framework written in CodeWarrior to more in RB
-IDE written in RB 5.x to IDE written in RB200x
-PowerPC only to Universal binaries
-Carbon to Cocoa framework
etc, etc.
A lot of Other development environments have made similar
transitions, but they have had more resources (Microsoft /
Metrowerks / Apple) and they have thrown away more backwards
compatibility and/or just support one platform. Before someone
brings up Revolution- I went down that road one day before realizing
that system had far more language, gui control, and other issues that
were harder for me to workaround than RB had.
My point is simply this. I think that RB is on the right track.
Once the transition to Universal Binaries is done, and more of RB
gets written with the current version of RB, I actually believe we
will start to see the 200x series truly mature.
I for one am grateful that RS has taken an aggressive approach to
platform support (entering the Linux market, which with previous
tools would have cost too much, helped me out quite a bit). I *do*
think perhaps they've leaned a bit too far on functionality rather
than bug fixes. But in my opinion, it isn't nearly as far off the
deep end as a lot of people think... Just my two cents.
--Travis
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