On 6/20/2011 6:10 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
On 06/21/2011 12:25 AM, Paul Dupuis wrote:
On 6/20/2011 3:25 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
http://code.google.com/p/openxion/
"XION is an xTalk language similar to the ones used by HyperCard,
SuperCard, and Runtime Revolution."
I'd like to know if RunRev has any involvement with this Open Source
initiative or what their take on it is?
No, I'm sure they haven't.
OpenXION seems very odd indeed insofar as it is an xTalk dialect
WITHOUT the objects and
the stacks on which those objects reside.
Rebecca Bettencourt [who has a long track record with this type of
thing] seems to be the driving force
behind it; whether it will go the same way as her TileStack remains to
be seen.
Okay, from Richard's reply and yours, I can see that OpenXION is nothing
I need to pay attention to. I feel compelled to mention why I was
interested though.
As a company that develops our entire product line in LiveCode, I
readily acknowledge we gain many many benefits from doing so -
cross-platform deployment, rapid application development, etc. etc. -
over using a traditional language like C++. One disadvantage though
using almost any proprietary development system is if something happened
to the vendor (RunRev). Now, for the record, I find that highly unlikely
given current trends. I very much admire RunRev's accomplishments and
growth over the last couple of years and consider it a very well managed
company likely to be around for a long time. But I would be
irresponsible to my own company, if I did not at least take note of
developments which might lessen that tiny tiny risk, such as xTalk
having a common, open "standard' like C++. Had XION, which I was
unfamiliar with, turned out to be a broader initiative to settle on an
open standard for xTalk, it would have been something worth following.
Thanks for the replies.
--
Paul Dupuis
Cofounder
Researchware, Inc.
http://www.researchware.com/
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