OpenEuphoria

1. A project which Euphoria is appropriate for

• Posted by krg Feb 04, 2013
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Some time back I came across the Open Tax Solver, an open source project which is used to calculate taxes for returns. It is actually text-based, but also comes with an optional cross-platform GUI (using FLTK, IIRC).

It struck me that this is precisely the type of project that Euphoria would excel at. The current version is written in C, and I think it would take the developers a little bit longer to make the annual changes necessary based on the current year's tax rules. Using Euphoria should make it somewhat easier, with the added bonus that wxEuphoria is cross-platform like FLTK, but with more native-looking chrome and controls.

Just pointing out this project in case anyone wants to take up the challenge. Euphoria needs as many widely-adopted success stories as it can get, not (as Derek rightly pointed out some time ago) that users care, but certainly developers would take notice, and propagate the language. IIRC Ruby was a relatively low-key language until the Ruby-on-Rails framework madness hit the scene - and then the language exploded.

krg