Hello, 2007/4/8, C. S. Wyatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Pet food analogies are really bad right now...
I know I know. :-) > I am not regretting my efforts in Obj-C when I read the posts here. I > could pay to renew my RB license, but I'm waiting to see if some > resolution of issues is reached quickly. I have 2006r4 and it works for > experimenting. I'm not really thinking of it for any major projects. > Yes, you can do major work with RB... but for platform specifics we > already know it's a compromise. Good compromise, but still a compromise. > > Just remember that QB, VB, and even C# have been ridiculed by C/C++ > purists. While those people are fussing with pointers and obtuse code, > at least an RB app can be tested and delivered quickly -- assuming the > IDE doesn't eat your code or tangle your typing. Right at this moment I am learning how to use Qt4 to develop nice, cross platform applications. It is out of question that REALbasic's main pro's are it's development speed, ease of use, very simple all-in-one package/compilers for all platforms and the Basic syntax. There is little you can't do with REALbasic (device drivers, high end gaming engines, etc...) but for most applications it is more than enough. We are developing a few larger, important projects with REALbasic, so RB will follow me for at least a few years from now on. Other toolkits (for instance, Qt) have gained a large amount of comfort over the past years, and in most cases you don't have to worry about pointers and references. Even most of the memory management is done by the toolkits. Besides that, gcc is probably a little bit more mature than REALbasic's internal compiler. After many years of using REALbasic every day, I must say that 98% of the bugs and crashes in our programs are caused by us. The rest of that are REALbasic compiler bugs, IDE bugs, weird behaviour, memory leaks in sockets within RB and so on. Most of those issues have been resolved till today and I can say that for most non-exotic projects REALbasic is a professional development environment. The only problem I see is a political problem within REAL Software. It seems that their understanding of quality is sometimes a bit... different. Hopefully they will manage to solve that problem internally and make our hearts fill with joy whenever we are renewing our licenses - knowing that we are doing the right thing. -- Best regards, Bastian Bense _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
