OpenEuphoria

Re: More projects?

• Posted by Vincent <darkvincentdude at yahoo.com> Dec 28, 2005
• 501 views

C Bouzy wrote:
> 
> You ever hear the saying "Jack of all trades, master of none"? That is EU
> wrapped up in a nutshell. So much focus is being placed on the cross
> platform capability, and because of that all platforms are suffering.
> I have nothing against Linux and FreeBSD users, but Linux nor FreeBSD
> will ever replace Windows, and more focus needs to be placed on supporting
> what the majority of users here use EU for, and that is Windows programming.
> I understand Robert cannot add everything requested by users, and that is
> why he should allow third parties to license and further develop the RDS
> version of EU. That is THE ONLY WAY the language will mature.
> 
> ----If you continue to do what you have always done,
> you will get what you have always gotten.----

If I wanted to use a language that only ran on Windows, I'd just use Visual
Basic and C# plus the .NET framework. Microsoft .NET and WinFX are a clear
indication where Windows programming is headed and where Euphoria currently is
not! If this trend continues, it's probable many years in the future, Euphoria
would still only support the Win32 API, which by then would have became obsolete
and rarely used with new software development. This could render Euphoria as a
language only acceptable for Unix based OSes (Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS), assuming
they dont change drastically in the foreseeable future.

With this said, it's important that RDS value the other supported OSes equally
as much. In order to protect the language from crippling on other platforms if
support for a specific platform erodes away, the majority of features added to
Euphoria should become available across all supported platforms.


Regards,
Vincent