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On 2/8/12 4:54 PM, Michael Chean wrote:
When I'm considering a tool I look at the community resources to see
whether they are
being kept up. For instance the RunRev forum, why is it that the last
announcement
of a new release was 4.6? Do the RunRev staff answer questions? Why are
there so many queries
that languish? Why do many of the tools including YogaSQL seem to have
had their last release
a year or more ago? Not trying to troll here, but just wondering what your
impression are.
Has RunRev been growing? The language is so elegant I keep thinking that
there is something
I'm missing as to why it's not more popular.
Mike
Aloha, Mike:
xTalk has been in the application development world since the day
Hypercard started in the late 80's. LiveCode is the evolution of that
set of tools but like modern man in relation to an earlier sub-species.
My Point is simply this: xTalk is never, ever, going to die. It is like
some species on the planet that have been with us through many
extinction cycles, but which has survived each one. LiveCode is the
current Elephant which carries xTalk to the latest robust level, able to
uproot entire forests in a few days.
It is a very powerful species of programming that can eat any set of
requirements or use cases alive (get you thru the project from beginning
to end) faster than any other language you might try to use.
Just because there is a lot of noise about it on the net, doesn't make
the language your best choice. Someone once tried to sell me on using
Drupal for web/CMS because they had so many hits, but that's only
because Drupal is so nasty. You have to practically go to Univerisity to
use it, or pay for support big time. If you get a CMS that really works,
then you find the developers are very "quiet" because the thing just
works and instead of spending all their time posting issues on the
forums, they are busy getting content up and online (OC Portal is a good
example of something that "just works")
So the good stuff that "just works" has less chatter in the digital
sphere, but that doesn't mean its "inferior" Alexander makes a good
point that we have no idea who uses LiveCode for what. Here at
Himalayan Academy Publications I/we use it for everything imaginable,
desktop clients for Hinduism Today International daily blog, build web
slide shows. I have an international network of volunteers using desktop
clients to download audio files, transcript and upload to our web server
where almost all the CGI is LiveCode. The Great Adobe's Version Cue for
In house document revision control was a) a horribly buggy beast which
cost our editorial team 100's of hours. b) they killed it in the end.
Instead of going for some Digital Asset Manager that would meet our
needs, I wrote my on revision control system for InDesign files in less
that 3 weeks of time (part time). I have a few "apps" on line that I
built in circa 2000 that *still* get downloaded and run fine on Windows
or Mac.
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