I think you will run into situation 1. There are a lot of them. However, situation 2 should cause no problems. I don't see any real stability issues in built apps that I don't cause myself.
My experience with REALbasic has not been good, despite using it for so many years. I find myself spending a lot of time working around bugs and such to make a feature work, and less time being "productive". The language is powerful, and getting better all the time. But what I find that most new features implemented in the last few years are "half-baked." My opinion of REALbasic is this: The language is a good one, I'm very pleased with it. The built applications are stable, but unimaginably huge. The IDE, however, is clumsy. REAL Software tried to create a great single window interface, and got close, but it needs work. I just started using Coda for my web development, and although it's not perfect, I found myself saying "Wow, I wish the REALbasic IDE acted like this." I don't use REALbasic for serious development anymore. Every time I've tried, it comes back to bite me in the ass. It can create great "typical" applications, but if you want to do something that's not so typical - you'll likely become very frustrated. -- Thom McGrath, <http://www.thezaz.com/> "You realize you've created God in your own image when God hates all the same people you do." On May 2, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Theodore H. Smith wrote: > > I should say... I am considering REALbasic for a project, and I just > don't want to commit myself to something I'll regret. I don't want to > end up with stuff like having to say to my client "well I'd LOVE to > implement this feature, but graphical control XYZ can't be extended > in this manner even though it's possible on Mac and PC!" > > or my client saying "well why is this app crashing on someone's Mac" > and me having to say "well RB has an incompatibility stability issue > with certain configurations". _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
