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[Bob Sneidar]

Not saying this means anything, but the Macintosh was released at a golden moment in history, where processors had just reached the place where they could support a GUI, a software developer named Microsoft was willing to write programs that made the Mac more than a toy, and a growing industry made such a thing as a Mac potentially profitable. 

I suspect Python had a golden moment as well. Livecode's golden moment was actually not RunRev's but Apples with Hypercard. Then when there where millions who loved and worked with Hypercard, Apple killed it. True there were other replacements, but a huge number of people threw in the towel then. I was one of them. I tried SuperCard for a while, but early releases were cumbersome and there were no small number of bugs. 

Now we have Livecode, and since version 2.0 I have been really amazed at how capable it has become. I use an app daily that I wrote for my company, and even my service manager who thinks I just play around with it every day has had to admit that it is really useful. 

But when is the new golden moment? Software developers abound, and there is no lack of languages scripting or otherwise. It's not like that golden moment with Apple when there was literally NOTHING like Hypercard. What we lack is not features or capabilities. We lack a golden moment where software produced with Livecode fills a need that launches a whole new wave of interest. 

Or maybe we just need more people to find out about it. 

Bob S


> On Jun 26, 2017, at 13:59 , Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> But we need to find some way to reach the tipping point of at least bring on the TIOBE Index consistently at all.