...and Livecode... where are we now?

[Bob Sneidar]

Wow. I have the opposite experience. I think that t he LC Dev team is more responsive than any other I have ever experienced. I've been in IT for a really long time, and have dealt with a number of apps and dev environments. I've seen more feature developments in LC than all the rest combined. 

People should really lighten up on these devs. Most of the issues have workarounds, and frankly those issues should take a back seat to the really serious ones. I've been waiting for a good long while for the devs to implement a very simple fix in t he DG library to allow nested behaviors in datagrids. But I have a workaround I have to implement for each version I DL. It's no big deal. 

Bob S


> On Oct 3, 2019, at 07:36 , Dalton Calford via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I first bought livecode back in 2010, they had lots of hype and promises at
> the time, most of the promises did not really start to arrive until the
> open source kickstarter (such as version control).
> I have tried to make sense of the code base, in order to add support for a
> few things, such as native support for a new sql engine (firebird) but
> between the products unstable UI (at least on linux) and the not-really
> open source elements of the tool, stopped me from investigating it further,
> especially since I can use Lazarus to generate cross platform apps with a
> fully open source tool set.
> I gave it one last try with the LC 9 release, but, the lack of development
> and the split of support from 9 to 9.5 within months of my getting the
> license, tells me that, as a developer, there is little reason for me to
> try to learn the language.   I know of many others who tried and walked
> away from livecode, mostly due to the way they have managed it.
> I have been watching for awhile since I was a fan of hypercard back in the
> day, but, from the viewpoint of a wysiwyg design, cross platform, native
> compile environment, livecode is not something I would recommend to anyone.
> I have hopped that would change, but, after 9 years, nothing has really
> changed.