On 24/11/2019 11:19 am, Marco van de Voort via lazarus wrote: > No. More importantly it gives independence. Something that external > tools don't give. If they wither or change direction, or do the umpteen > API change you have an immediate problem and risk getting caught in an > infinite catch-up
Also, myself and companies I worked for have been bitted by the fact that you used closed source software. I feel web apps fall into that same category. If the software vendor disappears (or the website), so does your development tools. Even IntelliJ IDEA seems to be prone to that issue. Just the other day we had about 500 developers that couldn't run IntelliJ for a couple of hours because the licensing server went down. We had to download and install the 30 day trial version of the Commercial edition so we could all get going. I just fired up my Eclipse and continued working as normal - no license server used! The many benefits of fully open source development tools. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp -- _______________________________________________ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
