a. Cross-platform without tears (well just a few).
b. Being able to develop on a Mac.
c. Rapid App Development. The best I've seen since my Delphi days.
d. A decent, non-arcane (c.f. C++) OO language and framework, with
garbage collection, etc.
e. A reasonably responsive and friendly vendor (most of the time).
The question that also bears asking is "What is tempting you to
abandon REALbasic?". I'm happy to answer that one too:
a. Bugs and irritations that never seem to get fixed and when they
do, others pop up or existing working features break. I can (finally)
move from 5.5.5 to 2007r1 with my existing app. However, the IDE is
still _full_ of irritating bugs and is dog slow. Living proof that RS
don't use their own product*.
b. The code is quite slow unless enormous effort is made to optimise.
This could well be from garbage collection, virtual methods, etc. The
IDE is a case in point.
Paul Rodman
* that being said, a lot of those irritations have apparently been
fixed for the next release. In which case, if I buy an Intel Mac with
scads of RAM, I might be a lot happier come 2007r2. Perhaps RS have
decided to eat their own dog food...
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