Just a thought. Can’t they participate in Google Summer Code to find someone who is really very devoted Xojo developer with C/C++ skills and who may work for less salary then a average dedicated developer they hire?
As I said just a thought as I don’t know if Xojo is even eligible for such participation.
I agree with you here. Till I did not know that there were other better alternatives to Xojo, I used to swear by it and also felt blessed that I had found such a powerful and productive tool for building cross platform apps. Because I could build apps for Mac from Windows without requiring Mac as my end!
All that I had to do was write my app, define the target platform(s) and compiles. After that ship the compiled app to client to test.
Then one day someone introduced me to another competing tool called Xero Coder (which now is a dead product), which was easier to learn and use and has more powerful features compared to Xojo. Then I realized that there may be many other alternatives, one just has to be a bit open minded and look around and of course be ready to try them and adopt them.
Even today I still feel that, the hardcore Mac developers should look up Fire (IDE) and Mercury (compiler).
As for me I have stopped building desktop apps for Mac and am fully into building complex to very complex web app (that is enterprise solutions) that are guaranteed to work on any OS as long as there is a powerful HTML5 compatible browser.
But I still feel that there is a place for Xojo and it should innovate to become market leader. If it does not, then down the line I am seeing that twinBasic will start eating its market share in a year or two.