What would it take to renew my enthusiasm for LiveCode?

[William Prothero]

Folks, I have used LiveCode for most of my projects in the past, but have found it irrelevant to much of my work in Wordpress. It would be great to be able to used LiveCode for some of my projects. Here’s what stops me.:
1) development still seems “in progress” with bugs regularly reported
2) I don’t see any easily tested and built upon “starter” stacks that can be informative and that demonstrate examples of important operations. 
3) It seems that all of the security (regularly changing) Apple registration requirements are not needed for internet apps. Web applications should be much easier to implement.

I may be wrong on the above, but it appears that  livecode’s web based  apps do not invite new users to join and experiment in the style of HyperCard that encouraged newbies to “jump on in”, with immediate success on simple calculations and that encourage more exploration. 

In the past, I did a lot of programming in Macromedia Director’s programming language, which had super web animation capabilities, as well as other programming capabilities. It was dropped (no longer supported) when it was purchased by Adobe. Too bad. It was a good model for easily deployed web applications. 
So, that’s where I’m at. I’m disappointed, but am retired anyway and don’t do as much programming as I used to. 

Best to you all
Bill

William Prothero
UCSB Prof, retired.