Re: OpenEuphoria's Strategy
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Feb 06, 2015
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Overall, not convinced at all.
I get the feeling that these great new features damaged the Euphoria community and the stable development badly.
I've never gotten that feeling, but if it did, I regret nothing!
Good tactic without a good strategy is a death wish. Too bad DOS minimal support was dropped - many users felt uncomfortable with this. That's also consideration.
I regret nothing about not supporting DOS at all. I never use it, and its primitive nature meant that we'd either be leaving stuff out in the DOS port or that we'd be extremely hampered by following a least common denominator strategy.
The only thing about DOS that was cool was easy pixel graphics. Rob made a dos_rescue library that several people, including myself, worked on to extend and improve that allows you do do that stuff on other platforms:
https://bitbucket.org/mattlewis/dos_rescue
Matt
