Why isn't Rev more popular?

[Bob Warren]

Thanks Jerry. However, in view of the fact that I am moving from Windows 
to Linux (hopefully never to return), the supplements would be of much 
greater interest if they were also available for Linux. This would also 
be better in line with RR itself which is supposedly a truly 
"cross-platform" product.

Bob

Jerry Daniels wrote:

> Bob,
>
> Regarding the Rev IDE:
>
> Some of us are moving ahead with significant supplements to the Rev  
> IDE with the full support of Runtime Revolution.
>
> Check us out:
>
>     http://www.daniels-mara.com/products
>
> Best,
>
> Jerry Daniels
> Daniels & Mara, Inc.
>
> On Dec 1, 2005, at 11:47 AM, Bob Warren wrote:
>
>> On 11/30/05, Mark Swindell <mdswindell at charter.net> wrote:
>>
>> >>
>> >> What is the main reason (if there is such a thing) that Rev is not
>> >> more popular among professional developers/programmers?  It's been
>> >> around awhile now.  People have had a chance to hear about it.  It
>> >> has garnered some awards, at least on the Mac side.  On the face of
>> >> things you'd think it would  be more popular.
>> >>
>> >> Just curious to hear what people think.
>> >> Mark
>>
>> When I first saw the above question, I got all welled up with  
>> emotion, and a thousand ideas invaded my mind. I nearly decided  that 
>> I would prefer to pay attention to my programming tasks, but I  found 
>> the question impossible to ignor.
>>
>> Someone on the List put it fairly succinctly the other day:
>> RR is potentially a wonderful programming system, so why do they  
>> insist on spoiling it all the time?
>>
>> But it's a simple question which deserves a simple answer. Here's  mine:
>>
>> The Transcript programming language is great, but
>> THE IDE SIMPLY ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH.
>>
>> Although I can think of many justifications for this view, I won't  
>> bore anyone by listing them here at this time.
>>
>> The IDE is RR's shop window, and if it continues to be so  incredibly 
>> AMATEUR, it will never pull in significant numbers of  clients. In my 
>> view, this is NOT primarily a question of PR as some  would have it, 
>> but a question of PRODUCT HYGIENE. How can anyone  hope to sell a 
>> marvellous programming system with an IDE as flawed  and unsupportive 
>> as that?
>>
>> Now that I have been suitably provocative, I will retire back into  
>> the wings and get on with my programming - if you will let me.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Bob
>>
>>
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