[YO EDINBURGH!] Microsoft Open-Sources It's Toolkit For Making iOS Apps Run On Win 10

[Mike Kerner]

+1 Roger, +1 Pierre.

On the first one, Roger, I completely agree, MORE SEAMLESS cross-platform,
more attention to Android (and Win 10, etc.) is important, even if it's
only because it says to the rest of the world "Cross-platform for realises".
I also agree with Pierre on where the investment goes.  We're doing most of
our work, right now, on iOS, so that's mostly what I'm paying folks to
extend.  I would bet that Monte is responding to demand, because if I said
"Hey, Monte, I want blah, blah, blah for Android", I would get it.  Right
now it's "Hey, I want blah, blah, blah for iOS", so, <harp strum/>, I get
blah, blah, blah for iOS.

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Pierre Sahores <sc at sahores-conseil.com>
wrote:

> Hi Roger,
>
> It’s simply no way to achieve 100% of cross platform ability as long as
> some features available, say, on the native Xcode’s iOS platform are not on
> the native Android SDK/NDK/JNI side and vice-versa ! Instead of complaining
> about this fact and, again, instead of limiting the cross platform ability
> of LiveCode to the less commun denominator of the different platforms LC
> covers, Edinburgh and external providers (Monte, …) extends it, each time
> it can be reliable and useful with special targeted features on one or an
> other platform and, gracefully, it’s, IMHO, the most we can get for staying
> as productive as possible from all of these beloved LC cookers ;D
>
> Best,
>
> Pierre
> --
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>
> > Le 10 août 2015 à 16:26, Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com> a
> écrit :
> >
> > Although LC calls itself cross-platform, I despise the fact that commands
> > in the dictionary, particularly for mobile, have quirks that make it a
> > little different for Android than iOS.  If it wants to call itself
> > cross-platform, a term that is in the dictionary should work exactly the
> > same across all supported platforms.  I would also be more likely to
> invest
> > more into externals if they didn't focus on a single preferred OS rather
> > than looking at the market potential for LC devs to build x-plat apps.
> LC
> > tools should all be required to be x-plat - period. /just one opinion.
> >
> > ~Roger
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Back in The Days Of The Language Wars, it was important, but now, with
> so
> >> many specialty languages for so many reasons, it becomes much less of an
> >> issue.  The PL bigots have been upended by uncompiled web languages.
> >>
> >> Whether it's this or Xojo or something else, LC still has a lead for
> >> building cross-platform apps.  Hopefully 8 will extend that lead and
> >> exploit it, more, because, really, web portals aren't the same.
> >>
> >> --
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> >> On the second day, God created the oceans.
> >> On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours,
> >>   and did a little diving.
> >> And God said, "This is good."
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On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth
On the second day, God created the oceans.
On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours,
   and did a little diving.
And God said, "This is good."