OpenEuphoria

Re: More projects?

• Posted by C Bouzy <eucoder at hotmail.com> Dec 28, 2005
• 464 views

Vincent wrote:

> 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.
> 


The Win32API will still be in use 7 years from now, it is not going
anywhere. Personally I do not see any major advantages of supporting
other OSes, especially when they only represent 5-7% of ALL computers
in the world. This means if there were only 1000 computer users in the
world, approximately 50 would have one of the OSes you mentioned. And
out of that 50, how many would be using EU?. So Robert is putting in all 
his time and effort to support other platforms for a handful of users.
I remember when everyone said Linux would replace Windows, 7 years later
and Windows is still the dominate OS. Linux is open source and even the
commercial versions are dramatically cheaper than Windows, and Linux
still does not have half of the marketshare. 

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you will get what you have always gotten.----