On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 09:01 AM, miscdas wrote:
Doesn't Java do a satisfactory job of it?I have spent as lot of time with Java and I can guarantee you of a couple of things, at least from the perspective of developers like myself:
1. The Java learning curve is steep and long.
2. Java syntax is ugly and difficult to read in many cases
3. Java apps do *not* run cross-platform with anything near the ease of Revolution apps. Java's promise of "write once, run everywnere", long since abandoned by Sun itself, quickly became "Write once, debug everywhere."
4. Java apps are slower than equivalent Revolution apps
5. Java apps are cumbersome compared to Rev apps. (A Rev developer was telling me just yesterday that he has a Java app that creates an alias to a file. For it to run correcty cross-platform, it took 257 lines of Java code. (That's probably 10-25% of the lines it would take in C++.) In Rev? One line and it runs everywhere.)
I've started thinking of Revolution -- and writing about it in my book -- as "All the power of Java...and hold the Java."
Yeah, I know, there are classes of apps (spreadsheets and word processors, e.g.) you wouldn't want to write in Rev that you can write in Java. And some have. But check out some of those Office-style apps in java and experience the joy of waiting for every single thing to happen. Even displaying typed keystrokes in a field feels sluggish.
For my money and time, Revolution is fabulous. Not perfect yet, but fabulous. I've built six applications in the past few weeks, any one of which would have taken many times that long in Java or even in Visual Basic.
It is not for nothing or without serious thought that I have cast a good bit of my fate with this product and this team.
FWIW.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dan Shafer, Revolutionary Author of forthcoming 3-book set, "Revolution: Programming at the Speed of Thought" http://www.revolutionpros.com for More Info
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