Re: Euphoria 4.1 status? Dev team, what's going on?
- Posted by ne1uno Dec 14, 2014
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OpenEuphoria 4 is great because it standardizes a lot of additional libraries missing in Euphoria 3 core libraries, but now there are many ways to reach the same result with different functions because some of them are close: that is confusing. More is better until it gets confusing.
Why not keep the core simple and move extra to another folder? Maybe standardized extra but extra.
It sounds reasonable. However, this and the other suggestions are mostly likely to be simply ignored. From what it appears, there are not enough resources to make Euphoria as great as we would like it to become.
that's not really fair, the dev's set up the include files for just exactly this reason with the new 4.0 includes in the std directory so you could include the updated but 3.x compatible includes in the include directory. fully 4.x programs all the includes should be using the std/ includes. if you wanted to only use the 3.x includes you can still do that using 4.0 executable. except for the new keywords, most older programs will run mostly unchanged. it's been years for most euphorians to worry about 3.x compatibility except when someone brings it up on the forum.
most of our computers are 100 or 1000 times faster than 10 years ago for most people so worrying about an extra 20 seconds of startup time is not really that relevant. and I do still us old computers and old OS.
