Jon....
I've created several commercial products for clients using
Revolution, going back to 1.1, and they all had to run on both Mac
and Windows. I am a Mac guy, so I did all the development work on
Macintosh. While you can run into some fairly well-documented issues
as you move across platforms, a huge percentage of what you write
once will run anywhere. I've spent a good part of my career looking
at programming languages and development environments, both for my
own use and in writing books and doing technology assessment. I can
honestly say that Revolution is, hands down, the most seamless cross-
platform software development tool available.
Over the next four months I will release four of my *own* commercial
products on Mac and Windows, and all of them will be done in
Revolution. I will be able to deliver them over the Web, auto-update
them transparently, offer professional installation capabilities, and
do all the other things you'd expect from a professional piece of
software. All at a fraction of the time investment of any other tool
I know about.
You say the Revolution IDE "is just too buggy." I've read all of the
messages on this list - including many from you in recent days - and
I can't honestly say I've seen you report or describe a single bug.
Quirks, yes; all development environments have those. Stuff that's
confusing, to be sure. Need for improvement, absolutely. But to
characterize it as "buggy" given what I have read from you here is
simply going too far. I know how frustrating it can be trying to
master this environment (that's why I wrote a book and some sample
eChapters about it) but I can't honestly say that I've encountered
one thing I needed to do to create a professional looking, usable
software application and couldn't do in Revolution. It doesn't do
everything and it's not suited to all problems, but for upwards of
95% of all software being written today above the system level, I
challenge you to find a better solution.
On Jun 05 2005, at 18:05, Jon wrote:
I'm curious. How many of you use Rev to make a living, and how
many of you just play with it. I'm at the point where I can't
believe anyone could use it to do serious development. It is just
too buggy, syntax idiosyncrasies and sloth aside.
And how many of you successfully deploy cross-platform
applications? That is my holy grail, but I'm so far away from that
I can't even imagine it.
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Dan Shafer, Co-Chair
RevConWest '05
June 17-18, 2005, Monterey, California
http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit/RevConWest
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