Where do we want LiveCode to go? (was "Re: Where LiveCode is Now")

[Pi Digital]

Hi Roland

This is the very reason my client and I have opted for the HTML5 LC. Easy language for him to handle, operating in the browser, no need to go through IT departments to have it installed on their systems. This is a seriously MAJOR plus for us. 100% of my clients customers IT depts have adopted Chrome as their default browser whether on Mac or PC. 

Its got a large amount of issues though at the moment which I will be ironing out this month. I’m very keen to have it working. 

Sean Cole
Pi Digital Prod Ltd

> On 5 Oct 2019, at 13:47, R.H. via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I always appreciate Richards insight and clear expressions. Thank you
> Richard.
> 
> What do we really want LiveCode to be?
> 
> Honestly, I would enjoy LiveCode to replace JavaScript and would put this
> as CHOICE NUMBER ONE, ONE and ONE.
> 
> And, of course, I know, this will not work.
> 
> Let us face the fact that today's browsers are capable of almost
> everything you want to do with a rich application. Why should I develop
> even desktop applications and mobile apps if pretty much the same can be
> done in a modern browser? OK, it only has a single page interface, but do
> people care? Already, even in LC, I am mostly developing for single page
> interface design anyway and do not use separate windows.
> 
> Probably, any other language faces the same dilemma. Maybe it could be
> possible using LiveCode to translate LC source code to source code in
> JavaScript? But probably not, since JavaScript heavily relies on the DOM in
> the browser and LC basically has nothing to do with a browser and its
> objects.
> 
> So, I am out of ideas.
> 
> Roland
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