Witango-Talk: Comparing WO to Witango

[Robert Garcia]

Title: Comparing WO to Witango

Many moons ago, I started a thread labeled “Sad Day”, where many of us announced our intention to move away from Witango. My intention was to go to WO 5.

I have owned and kept up to date a full deployment version of WO since 4.0. I have played with it at times, but when I started “Sad Day”, I made a commitment to completely tackling WO 5 and moving all of my code over. I’m an all or nothing kind of guy. Apart from my Witango programming experience, I am a fairly experienced Java programmer, and until I found RealBasic, I spent a lot of time using it. I spent a whole month with WO 5. 12 hours a day, full boar. Yes, I could do anything I could do in tango, but at a huge price. The IDE constrainsts made every thing take 3 times as long or more. And I was mistaken when I thought WO was less buggy. As I dug in, hit the lists and read the articles, it seemed that the learning curve everyone talks about with WO is two fold, first you have to learn the IDE, then you have to learn the workarounds. It had its atractions though. I would love to see tango work on its builders to get something more like WO’s direct to web feature.

I have also worked in JSP and ColdFusion, and dabbled in ASP. But nothing compares to the flexibility and simple logic of the tango editor. With tafs, tmls, tcfs, beans, com objects, you have a wealth of tools to help you accomplish the amazing. But you can also throw an quick app together in a few hours. And isn’t that the point? Get it done quickly, get paid, and move on to your next project. Of course, not sacrificing quality. And that is where v5 comes in. It brings the quality and performance back to the greatest webapp IDE around.

Of course, this is all my opinion.

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Robert Garcia
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