How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

[Bob Sneidar]

Boy I was your man. I know Foxpro and Livecode well. I actually expanded some SBT modules and when I got really good, I wrote my own new ones. Too bad, Ida come on board.

Bob S


On May 29, 2015, at 13:54 , Andrew Kluthe <andrew at ctech.me<mailto:andrew at ctech.me>> wrote:

I was hired to convert legacy visual foxpro programs into a more robust
system that could bring us into the present and was leaned on to sort of
build the programming teams and automate everything. Then we got a new set
of investors and could afford to write more of our industrial things
in-house and wanted to hire people who would be willing to work in LC. That
was hard to do. We wanted things like git repos once we got a bigger team
(before opensource when things like that were still hard for LC). I think
the decision boiled down to just wanting more mainstream processes for
development and being able to find programmers we didn't have to train from
scratch. So the decision was made to become a .Net shop and phase out the
livecode applications we had been using since then with .Net web apps and
desktop clients.

I guess you could say we just outgrew livecode's abilities at the time and
couldn't wait for the new ones to be available. It was more of a
convenience issue than than a showstopper for us. I keep waiting to go back
and show off some amazing new stuff the new livecode features introduce,
but so far I have been forced to keep waiting for that thing that can sell
us on doing some things in livecode still.