hair-pulling frustration

[Rick Harrison]

Hi Dr. Hawkins,

The whole computer industry is changing too rapidly now.
Their is no such thing as “stable” as a result.  

What everyone wants is a “stable” OS, a “stable” language, a
“stable” database, and stable hardware platforms to go with it all.

If we had all of that, we’d already have a stable “AI” computer
system.  Instead it’s all becoming an upgrade hell for everyone
except the people who at the top are making money from the
entire circus they’ve created.

Just my 2 cents.

Thanks for letting all of us vent a little!  LOL

Rick

> On Nov 11, 2014, at 2:25 PM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I can't help but wonder what it would take to get runrev to follow normal
> practice and actually get something to alpha level before calling it a
> "developer preview", beta by a "release candidate" (ok, that still wouldn't
> be normal), and working rather than early beta before release.
> 
> If I sold something at these stages, I'd be out of business by sundown.
> 
> Do the developers even pretend to use the IDE before slapping "release
> candidate" on it?  Do they even have some kind of test suite?
> 
> The sheer number of pieces of working code that have broken when going from
> 5.5 to 7.0 is beyond belief, as is the giant step backward in the IDE.
> 
> I used to have to kill livecode frequently for the phantom "shadow
> variable" problem.  While that happens more often under 6 (which is why I
> could never use it) and 7, I now usually have to kill the whole thing
> before that happens, as I can't get it to set a breakpoint, or even
> acknowedge that I've clicked anything, delays of several seconds, and so
> forth.
> 
> In addition to the others I've mentioned here an in other recent posts, the
> recompile of sqlite is not quite compatible with the old, and behaves
> differently.  For example, a semicolon at the end of an entry without
> begin/end transaction now causes a parsing error.
> 
> Moving forward is one thing, but the only near release grade version is
> 5.x, which itself isn't quite ready for primetime.
> 
> OK, I'll stop venting, but the amount of time I'm losing to bugs that never
> should have seen a public preview is getting increasingly frustrating.
> -- 
> Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
> (702) 508-8462
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