Bob Sneidar wrote:
> Well I have to say that Runrev's track record of improving things
> (eventually) is quite good.
I would have to agree. I can sympathize with the OP's feelings, but
here in my own office I've been buying software long enough that I have
a policy:
I only pay for what I can use in my hands right now.
If a feature I need will be available tomorrow, I'm quite happy to wait
until tomorrow to buy it. I have plenty of other things to keep me busy
in the meantime, and there are many ways to satisfy any development need.
Whenever a LiveCode product does what you need, it's almost always the
highest-ROI option you'll find.
But when it doesn't quite yet, you're still no worse off than the
millions of developers using something else.
I see LiveCode as a sort of secret weapon for rapid development. If I
can't deploy it in a particular engagement, I still have everything else
in my arsenal available to me in the meantime, and even then I only need
to draw on those when a project requires that we not wait.
And when it does what I need, it delivers in spades.
> ps. Richmond, please don't chastise me for calling Linux support
> minor.
RunRev has done an admirable job of enhancing its Linux engine, and I
can understand the current irony of that engine not having feature
parity with the other desktop editions while costing twice as much.
Linux development at RunRev is a limited priority for them, and while I
may prefer it otherwise at least the reasons are understandable.
The state of the LiveCode Linux engine allows me to do most of what I
need there, and for the rest it's been a source of inspiration: I've
begun looking into Python and Quickly. ;)
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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