RE: What we really need...
David Cuny wrote:
[snip]
> My conclusion: both occupy a niche that there doesn't have a lot of
> demand.
> People seem to prefer more features and bloat over faster execution. The
> same
> features that make Euphoria attractive to the current user base make it
> unattractive to the larger programming community.
>
> Is this necessarily a problem to be solved? As long as the user base is
> sufficient to support Robert, I'm not sure that there's an issue here.
>
> -- David Cuny
I agree ... developers aren't worried about bloat, who cares if it's a
10MB (or even 50MB) download to install a development system.
Who cares if the software you write needs a 5MB or 10MB install and will
only run on a PII PC with 64MB ram (except Igor :)).
I'm becoming a Python advocate ... and everyone says Python is very very
slow ... full blown applications are written all the time in 100% Python
without speed issues.
Google is (I beleive) mostly written in Python.
The speed and memory of PC's and the speed of the internet are all
expanding faster than bloat and slow speed of development tools.
THE REAL ISSUE IS ...
How easy (or difficult) is it to develop my apps.
This is the highest priority for developers when deciding on a
development tool.
All other issues are secondary ... speed, size, etc
Ray Smith
http://rays-web.com
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