I only evaluated the product back when it was CrossBasic, but I have
purchased REALbasic license codes going back to version 1. The major
technical reason I use it is that I can knock stuff out fast. We
don't do huge programming projects here. Most of what we need falls
into utilities and unificators (glue, if you will). RB is great for
that. I'm trying to learn Cocoa/Xcode as well, but it is a difficult
target and involves a significant commitment. Plus, I need to get
stuff done in the meantime.
Also, I was a big HyperCard user back in the day. While RB does not
remind me that much of HyperCard technically or structurally, this
community does. Everyone is passionate about the product one way or
another, and the user community has direct bitchability to the
developers. In fact, a lot of people here talk to the developers
like they work for THEM rather than REAL Software. And, a lot of the
people here "know" each other to the extent that if somebody really
gets out of line they'll get more than one personal mail along the
lines of "Hey, you know that comment you put in the NUG? Bite me
crossways!".
My undergraduate degree is in computer science, with a software
development focus, so it's not like I haven't been exposed to
practically every programming and scripting language in general use.
However, I'm getting to an age that I don't really want to spend all
my time learning a new syntax. REALbasic makes enough intuitive
structural sense that I can almost always find what I need pretty
fast and get the code slammed down and get things happening.
On Jan 5, 2007, at 2:32 AM, Ryan Dary wrote:
Hi. Some people might not appreciate this message, but I think
that it is warranted. Some people have been using REALbasic since
it was first introduced as CrossBasic. Other people didn't get a
chance to use it until it was renamed REALbasic. And then there
are a bunch of people who picked it up sometime between then and now.
What is the draw to REALbasic? Is it cross-platform? Is it rich
framework? Is it easy to learn?
I'd like to know why everyone is using REALbasic. There are other
tools out there. There are other languages out there. Why REALbasic?
With all the problems that REALbasic has, it still keeps a
following. There is still some use for it, and it appears to be
getting better in each build, even if it isn't always apparent.
I'd like to hear from you. If you'd email me off the list and tell
me why you're using REALbasic and what you like and what you don't
like about it.
There is a group of us out there that is unhappy with REALbasic and
would turn to another product immediately if it just offered that
one or two things that we're using from REALbasic. What is that
one piece for you?
I can't wait to hear,
--
Bruce Carter, Senior Systems Engineer http://www.nd.edu/
~bcarter/
Center for Creative Computing, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame,
IN 46556
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