OpenEuphoria

Re: More projects?

• Posted by Alexander Toresson <alexander.toresson at gmail.com> Dec 28, 2005
• 488 views

C Bouzy wrote:
> 
> 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. 
> 

Linux is not really ready for the desktop yet. There are still problems to
overcome, like driver problems and how to allow normal users to mount stuff.

One area where Linux has succeeded, though, is the server market, which it
currently dominates. If Rob wants to promote people to use Euphoria on servers
and do CGI with Euphoria, he will have to provide a Linux version.

Regards, Alexander Toresson