From my experience (mostly DB apps),
I have been developing using 4D, and decided to let it down (marketing,
price, etc... reasons) in favor of FMP which let me develop vertical app
much quickly and with a much better look. FMP is stable (very stable),
cross-platform, great IDE, very easy to start and go.
I then discovered and bought RB few years ago, along with Matt's book.
After few attempts, the joy of creating responsive UI declined into
frustration of not getting the grip of the OOP language.
Frustrated with the limits of FMP, the price (I find myself selling
more in licences than development), I gave a serious look at RB about
2-3 Months ago.
Then I would say, RB is now my BEST tool for these 4 main reasons :
1 - Cross-Platform dev (not an option for me)
2 - Simplicity of the language (and OOP on top of it)
3 - Great and quick to program DB apps, and not trapped with one DB like
4D or FMP
4 - Great community of people (you guys), very patient with beginners
like me for instance :-)
Althougth, my big deceptions :
1 - Unstable : RB2006 r4 crashes on average once every 2 hours
2 - IDE : Not to the FMP standard for drawing Controls (slow, not very
"sharp", lineControl unusable)
3 - Editfield don't support natively rtf on Mac
4 - It took me so long to start using RB ;-)
Best regards,
Youri
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