Re: non-update of RedyCode
- Posted by RobertS 2 days ago
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I want to start by saying I absolutely love the concept and syntax of Euphoria. Once I realized how amazing and powerful sequences are, I was totally convinced that this was the language for me.
Absolutely the same with me. And I think that this amazing feature is hugely undersold.
I've been using Euphoria since the days of 2.x, was very happy with 3.1, then less happy with 4.0, didn't do much for many years, then ran into some issues that seemed (or actually were) unresolvable and almost made me quit, until I tried Phix, and ever since I'm happy again.
I don't know much if anything about the "pretty much all other modern languages," but for what I need, Phix is perfectly well suited. Dwindling user base poses a problem, of course, but I think that much of this is due to the way that Euphoria and Phix are presented. (In January in the thread "Archives" Pete said, "I'm always up for any (specific) ways to improve the web site, or docs, or Phix itself. Don't be shy now." I wasn't shy and made a few suggestions, but there was no response.)
Btw, in the two months of September and October my Phix-written calculator (hypatia-rpn.net) got 839 downloads, which proves that there is still some interest in text-based Windows console programs. The Phix source file got 21 downloads in these 2 months - not that much, but more than nothing, so some interest exists in this, too. I think more people might get interested in Euphoria and/or Phix, if they could find more actual examples of what this language can be used for, and see that for some tasks (and maybe for them) it may still be better suited than all the other and more modern languages ...
