Re: So what tech do you like to work in nowadays? (was Re: TaskPane entry for ProFox outdated)

-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Tue, 14 Feb 2017, at 02:14 PM, Kevin J Cully wrote: > I'm going to chime in for Xojo ... again. I find it's really fun to > develop in. I'm using it at my new job working with my county > government. The Xojo web application that I built for them is > "invaluable" for them to accomplish their job in the Building Department. > > Here's my check list: > > - XBase like language: Check > - Object oriented: Check > - Singlular IDE: Check > - Case insensitive programming language: Check > - Report writer: Half check (they're working on improving this) > - FOSS: no > - Try it for free for an unlimited time: Check > - Reasonable license cost: Check > - Can develop commercial products: Check > - Deploy to as many customers as you want with that license: Check > - Small focused company: Check > - Documentation in English: Check > - Example programs: Check (Hundreds of them) > - Friendly community: Check > - Database agnostic: Check > - Active development of the product: Check > - Compile to Windows: Check > - Compile to Mac: Check > - Compile to Linux: Check > - Build console applications: Check > - Build desktop applications: Check > - Build web applications: Check > - Build iOS applications: Check > - Build Android applications: Coming soon. Perhaps 2017 > - Build Raspberry Pi applications: Check > - Easy to build web applications: Yes. Almost build them like desktop > applications! > - Can host web applications for a "reasonable" cost: Yes, starting at $5 > at http://DigitalOcean.com and similar > - Web applications are secure: Yes. Doubly yes when hosted in the Xojo > Cloud service (http://www.xojo.com/cloud/ ) > - Native controls per platform: Yes (This means that a Mac app looks like > a Mac app, etc. ) > - Actively published magazine: Yes ( http://xdevmag.com/ ) > - Conferences in USA: Yes (http://www.xojo.com/xdc/HTML/index.html ) > - Conferences in EU: Yes > (http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/events/berlin-2017-event.shtml ) > - Easy to move from VFP mindset to Xojo: Yes > - Perfect: No > - Excellent: Yes > > If there was ever a VFP replacement, I think Xojo is it. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of > mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com > Sent: Monday, February 13, 2017 3:14 PM > To: ProFox Email List > Subject: So what tech do you like to work in nowadays? (was Re: TaskPane > entry for ProFox outdated) > > On 2017-02-10 11:52, Ed Leafe wrote: > > I haven't touched VFP since early 2008. I don't even own a copy of it > > anymore. > > > Ed (and others), > > What tech do you find yourself enjoying nowadays? I don't just mean > doing it for a paycheck, but something that you REALLY like, akin to the > golden days when you were loving the Fox. > > > [excessive quoting removed by server]