Anybody could point me to samples of "big" applications developed with Revolution? Details? Reports? Links?
check out hemmingway, but i have a feeling the majority of large projects are internal, or still being built..
being new to Revolution I won't be able to actually ANSWER the question. But perhaps my impressions can be a hint:
I think the GUI building system is quite good, to me it seems better than most GUI builders I know. There may be tools that have more bells and whistles, but creating a standard interface or even a somewhat "bloated" with Revolution is very productive.
What seems to be a major drawback, a REAL PROBLEM in my eyes, is the programming "language". I do not intend to call it "bad", don't get me wrong here - but you are talking about "big projects" (or "serious applications", which I cannot define). You would always have to have developers that can "talk transcript", which is not as likely as finding professionals that speak C, C++, Java etc. pp. Personally I find it very hard to "learn" Transcript (being a stubborn Assembler/machine language/C/C++/Shellscript/PHP programmer that hasn't learned anything serious) and currently this might be the reason for me to not use Revolution at all - to me this is a question of productivity: I have to learn a language that does not give me any benefits over those I am already familiar with AND I would have to limit external developers to those being able to handle this language as well.
When I am talking about "big projects" I am talking about 1-2 years of development time (full time) with at least 2 developers envolved. I do not know if this is the right scale for Revolution projects at all, but I am sure it could be considered possible.
So: Propably "serious applications" are not a problem to do with Revolution if you have the time and money to get your code-slaves speak Transcript. A well designed project only needs about 30% of time spent in writing code, the rest is concept, design etc - so the language is only a component of the "code processing" part of the project, with only is less than a third of the project, meaning: Revolution is just as good as any other IDE - and only just as bad as any poorly designed project.
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