Any in-house corporate developers?

[Bob Sneidar]

Hi Michael. 

As you may have deduced by now, Livecode is a bit of an odd duck in the development world. Most of the tools people are used to working with would not apply here. It's just a different way of doing things. I have likened it before to the difference between having all the raw materials you need with all the crafting tools ever made at your disposal (the C and Java world) and a warehouse full of parts to make just about anything, with a select set of tools needed to assemble it (the RAD development world). 

There are certainly things you will not be able to develop with LC. Although collaboration CAN be done if managed properly, you will probably not want to have more than a few people working on one project. But the relative simplicity of the process of constructing something and the speed with which it can be done is simply unparalleled. Nothing else even comes close. That is the tradeoff in a nutshell. 

With a RAD approach you are trading time and difficulty for scope of projects and collaboration. That is quite a simplistic summary and I am sure many more people would want to chime in here about what they have to give and what they get in return, but the main point is it IS a tradeoff. 

Bob


On Feb 17, 2012, at 5:32 PM, Michael Chean wrote:

> Thanks Alejandro, but I'm not too enthusiastic about the idea of using 
> a proprietary tool.  I use svn mostly here, so some solution
> like this would be good.  In a corporate environment something like this is 
> pretty much a necessity. 
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