Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

[Richard Gaskin]

Lynn Fredricks wrote:

 >> Unicode - DONE
 >
 > Im glad Paul pointed this out; its been taking some hits from people
 > who say they don't need it, and that its impacting performance.
 >
 > It is a necessity for the future of LiveCode or any development
 > environment for that matter.

A lot of Americans feel they have the luxury of using only US English 
forever, and for some apps maybe that's true.

But as a developer tool LiveCode simply couldn't be taken seriously 
without it.

Others not on that list are:

- 64-bit Linux
- Linux GTK integration

The former means you no longer have to modify your system just to run 
LiveCode, and while that may seem small to those who use just one OS 
it's helpful to remember that the Linux audience is most likely to 
contribute code as the platform grows.

The GTK integration was in some respects similar to the transition from 
Carbon to Cocoa for Mac OS X.  There are still some rough edges (option 
controls become unreadable when they get focus, can't copy/paste styled 
text), but for the most part Fraser's work on this was excellent and 
makes LiveCode a joy to use on Linux.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
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