Xojo is making changes and maybe finally kind of listening. Saving in text mode on Lite was a good move. But making Xojo Free for Linux apps free maybe is not the best move. Now that every windows has the WSL a few clicks away… Free Xojo apps for windows too :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: …

[image] Walter: version control What disturbs me with Xojo is the misleading ‘version control ready’ marketing. It is a rather pompous term for saving source code in text or xml format. Technically, this is not a version control feature by itself. Including text and xml file formats in the li…

[image] samRowlands: In the last 10 years, pretty much every feature that could have been useful has been fouled by a complete and utter lack of care, then they just leave it to rot on the vine. If you complain about it, you become a troll. This. Everything new is half assed and then they lea…

[image] Tim: Everything new is half assed and then they leave it to rot. Glaring stupid PDF problems still exist and I can’t say anything. And after the stupid renamig of API2… New things are not even API2 compliant WTF Barcode.Image Looks like a property but it is a method that creates a …

[image] Tim: Everything new is half assed and then they leave it to rot Well at least the first part of that has been true since I started using RB back in 2001… I quickly learned not to count on new features for at least a couple years after they were first released. Karen

I guess Xojo’s reasoning is to try to capture a subset of Linux users, try to get 'em hooked and then sell 'em Desktop when these users want to port their app to the Mac, or Pro if they then want to ALSO develop an iOS or Android app. But then again, this target audience could just use Java or Elec…

[image] samRowlands: Apple spend twice as much on stock buybacks than they do on product development. Billions of dollars, they could hire a few more skilled people and radically improve their products and reputation, without even spending a billion… I guess that makes shareholders and the CEO t…

it get sold under the rubric of “creating shareholder value” because it boosts each shares value I’d rather they boosted their dividends or something else but then I dont sit on the boards that approve this stuff And those same boards grant officers significant share options that, because of share…

this sums it up… xojo was my breaking point in never trusting closed source dev tools anymore… and linux (and windows) were always 2nd class citizen in the xojo zoo… mac was and is main…

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The Mac being primary was more a matter of historical interest Thats where the very original author developed & first shipped it I memory servers it was only about version 5 or so way back about 2002/3, about 5 years after the company got started, did they finally ship for Windows And by that tim…

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