Funny that every post around a Xojo topic decends into a discussion about how few employees they have and that it will never suffice jada jada…
There are smaller companies which get much more done in a shorter time. We all don’t know how much resources are really spent on Xojo still. I doubt that any of their devs are working full time on Xojo at this point in time - given the slow rate of improvements. And with the advent of AI, even small teams can become more productive when used the right way.
Throwing more devs at the platform is not always the best solution. As JetBrains was mentioned: it is a huge company but they still have to cancel products and increasingly release crappy and buggy software. For example, the Goland IDE doesn’t even have LSP integration - which literally every decent text editor on the planet has - even BBEdit. This feature was requested years ago and really nothing happened, the only improvement that were able to implement recently is their AI plugins. JetBrains, despite its ally Google, a shitload of cash and hundreds of developers, doesn’t innovate anymore. Fleet is dead in the water, Writerside and their Git hosting services were canceled and now they have to release free licenses to keep at least some devs using Jetbrains products.
The root cause of the issue at hand is Geoff and his desire to keep the platform as closed as possible and play gatekeeper for Monkeybread Software, GraffitiSuite and Einhugur to fill the gaps and keep their license revenue flowing. I see no other reason why Xojo still doesn’t have a package manager and a official open source repository of plugins created by 3rd parties. Any why Xojo hasn’t added decent UI elements, that are missed by so many, to their products for years. Geoff literally kills any effort to create a competing ecosystem around Xojo.
So in my view, it is not at all about the number of devs they have. It’s the attitude of leadership and their die-hard fans that block what Xojo could become. I still believe that there is a place for a product like Xojo, especially in an industry the is ever increasing in complexity and makes it very hard and costly to build cross platform apps on Desktop, Mobile and Web without resorting to a Chromium web wrapper.
Xojo leadership needs to do a full U-turn, quickly.
These are my 2 cents. “Thank you for your attention to this matter.” 