Us and them? [was Re: Livecode Dictionary]

[Richmond]

Well, Curry, at the risk of causing you terminal disappointment, I can 
do nothing but support
your request for the thing to be a simple as possible.

"my budget hardware"

my "budgetist" hard ware is a Pentium 4 I picked up 12 years ago, second 
had, for $12 . . .

It has "2000" written on the back of it!

Oddly enough it runs LC 9.0 under Xubuntu 18.04 without a backward glance.

Richmond.

However, having played around with it when I bought it, 12 years ago, 
with Windows XP,
that was glacially slow back then

On 23.01.19 г. 1:06 ч., Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode wrote:
>
> David:
>
> > I'm working on a solution for this
>
> > collaborative with the minimal possible barrier to entry
> > integrated into developer workflow - that means the script editor
>
> > personal project wiki's for the software a developer is working
> > on directly from the script editor
>
> > Thoughts? Feedback on this?
>
> As a "KISS man" (bet Richmond will have fun with that!) my only advice 
> is: Don't make it one bit more complex than it must be.
>
> Meaning simplicity both for maintenance/quality AND for performance 
> speed/memory. The Script Editor is already a bit chubby, huffing and 
> puffing on many machines during a modest jog, and the Dictionary is 
> waddling around even slower and shakier on my budget hardware than I 
> move around myself as a handicap person. :D
>
> What people need most in the Script Editor is to view and edit the 
> code itself smoothly, without jitters or delays; the primary function 
> of SE. After that, debugging and variables and search are very 
> helpful. Something like a project wiki would come below all those in 
> priority, and better not slow things down any further. A wiki could 
> just as well be external to the SE or to LC - but if it plays nice, 
> doesn't use cycles or memory or real estate unless it's turned on, 
> sounds cool.
>
> Supporting a list of standards and whizbang features is nice, but user 
> comments for keywords are the essence. I would just as soon have user 
> comments for the Dictionary kept fairly simple and kept in the 
> Dictionary, rather than in the SE. But it sounds like you have a dream 
> for this, and I'm glad to see the passion. This will be interesting!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Curry Kenworthy
>
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