After reading the price list and after the community license model: no way. Much too expensive. And not usable when using with community license cause this license is poisoned. Can end like LiveCode. No need for crap like that.

Their target market is owners of legacy corporate code bases already built in WinForms, which is a massive, COBOL-like demographic. To jail break them to leverage that code base for multi-platform and web deployments with trivial changes, is well worth the asking price. Whether it’s something for g…

But it is no alternative for cross platform development

[image] thorstenstueker: But it is no alternative for cross platform development As I said to Norm, it “can deploy on Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS and of course web“. In what way is that not cross platform? It’s certainly closer to that than Xojo ever was on a good day. It would involve very …

It is darned expensive for professional use. It has a small problem if the vendor will die. It is again a lock in. May be I am too free with Java Development while having no kind of lock in with Java development for Desktop, mobile and web.

[image] thorstenstueker: It is darned expensive for professional use. It has a small problem if the vendor will die. It is again a lock in. May be I am too free with Java Development while having no kind of lock in with Java development for Desktop, mobile and web. Everything is lock in ultim…

[image] bgrommes: More broadly it is just that the wider world can’t bring itself to embrace WinForms simply because MSFT = Bad. Heh They’re not wrong here :stuck_out_tongue: I do wish MS would choose a path and stick to it While as Xojo that was one of the reasons that moving the Windows …

[image] npalardy: Until MS changes their mind And they will.

[image] bgrommes: Java b You missed the most important point: even IF Oracle would die and even IF they would stop maintaining Javaa there is a hole bunch of companies which will maintain Java forward cause of the OpenJDK maintainers. It is not comparable with any of the other languages in th…

[image] npalardy: I do wish MS would choose a path and stick to it Yeah this is the basic problem with MSFT. I have made a good living working with the MSFT stack and TBH it’s never lacked for quality, well-optimized and usually well thought out abstractions – at least for my needs. And you c…

@bgrommes I hope you will be around much longer than 5 years. Don’t stop working. It’s healthy and makes the world go around. Who shall do your job then? Everybody in my age is thinking about retirement.

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