On Sep 10, 2016, at 6:39 AM, Man-wai Chang changmw@gmail.com wrote:
Resurrect Visual Foxpro, please! Make it 64-bit at least! :)
Well, Paul McNett and I *tried* to do that when we created Dabo, which does pretty much everything that VFP does, but with an open license and a future path forward. It did require learning Python instead of Xbase, but other than that, it had data binding, support for multiple backends (even a DBF backend, if someone had maintained it). It's been production-ready for over a decade.
Very few people were willing to make the effort to move to Dabo. Sure, you couldn't directly port a VFP app to Dabo, but new development work doesn't have that problem. It really seems that people are much more willing to invest in a product with no future from its owner than to invest in a product with a future. It's like people who lived on the coast who have been flooded as sea levels rose: instead of moving to higher ground, they keep propping themselves above the waterline and praying for a miracle.
-- Ed Leafe
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