Thanks so much, that's a very informative answer. Late, and with apologies, updated the subject to reflect, well, the subject and [NF].
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Not shilling for it or anything like, but I've been looking at it > recently since they did a Kickstarter and went open source, so here are > some bullet points: > > PRO > - Dev tools (all-in-one IDE) are cross-platform and build native > executables for Windows/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android from one code base. > - No code/compile/run cycle. Just change the source or whatever, click > into 'run' mode, changes immediately take effect. > - Free to develop in for in-house apps. Commercial apps also, but you > must supply source. > - Database agnostic, simple built-in database access commands. > - Very high-level, simple yet fully featured language (derived from > Smalltalk/HyperCard). > - Easy-ish to extend with plugins. Quite a large suite of third-party > plugins. > - Has a decent, inexpensive third-party report writing tool and ORM > layer. > - Backed by an original Apple founder. > - Pretty good suite of samples, docs and an active forum. > - Good suite of controls including a flexible grid. > > CON > - Language and concepts may be a leeeetle bit too high-level and wordy, > leading to inflexibility. Having said that they have a challenge running > where they will develop any type of application thrown at them. > - Language is more or less proprietary, so your > VFP/C#/Java/JavaScript/Python is not good here. > - IDE is ... OK, and proprietary, i.e. not Visual Studio or > Eclipse-based. > - Project metadata appears to be in a proprietary binary format, so I'm > unsure about how well it works with source control. I think there are > Git plugins for it though. > - Does not currently deploy to web application of any kind. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4vG6hiEqUtMW-SJHGuT632woN3qi=tar_0-fojm43e...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
