Re: Eu 2.5 improvements over Eu 2.4
Robert Craig wrote:
> Once people start using $ and crash_routine(), and posting
> that code to the Archive, you'll have to install 2.5. 
I've started using the $-feature in Win4Eu, and I must say:
it's a really great improvement. It doesn't seem that spectacular,
but it's a time saver, and it makes the code look a bit better.
Maybe it's also a bit faster (less parsing, special opcode, ...),
I don't know.
I see (experienced) people leaving Euphoria, searching for better
languages. At work, I program in C#, and it's a really cool language
with a lot of features, a solid framework with all the possible
functionality (networking, gui, xml, database, ...) and one of the
best IDEs I've worked with (you can download the Express edition for
free).
Yet, at home I still use Euphoria for most of my coding. Why? Because
I think Euphoria (as a language) is beautiful. Of course it needs a lot
of improvement, but the essence is beautiful. And if you check out the
contributions I've made, you can see that I haven't made a single
PRACTICAL application for a specific use. All the contributions I've
made are libraries, to be used by other programmers, to make it easier
for programmers to do certain things. That is my way of trying to improve
the Euphoria-experience, without actually changing the language.
One of the best things about Euphoria, is the archive, the many
contributions. Why did Derek keep maintaining Win32Lib for so long?
To improve the Euphoria-experience. Because he still had hope for Euphoria.
Unfortunately, Derek has lost that hope. But I still have a little hope,
that's why I'm creating Win4Eu in the first place. I started Win4Eu,
because I felt that Win32Lib (and IDE) has reached a certain limit.
The main problem with Win32Lib (and IDE) that I feel, is that it's hard
to extend, to create new features (like controls). That will be one of
the key features of Win4Eu, the easy extensibility. I'm trying to design
Win4Eu to be modular, and to support third-party extensions, so I don't
have to incorporate all the possible components and controls in the base-
library.
Robert, a lot of great contributors have lost hope on Euphoria, and have
left. I hope you realize that more people will leave, if you don't do
something about it. Euphoria needs people like Derek and Irv. Without the
contributions, Euphoria is lost.
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