OpenEuphoria

Euphoria's Future

• Posted by Smith Ray <Ray.Smith at FUJITSU.COM.AU> Mar 17, 1999
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Hi all,

I have been using Euphoria for a few months and have found it to be a good
development language.
I know everyone has different requirements for a language, what I am after
is a langauge that could produce small to medium sized standalone Windows
programs.
With Win32Lib Euphoria can, but Win32Lib is still a way from being complete.

I will probably go back to the Visual Basic beast and distribute 1-2MB of files
with distributions.  For me, Euphoria being able produce small standalone
programs was "the" major advantage, but I think some of the current restrictions
of Euphoria will push me back to VB.

I know if I want to I can research windows programming and add all the features
I want myself, but thats not my real interest and if the size and complexity
of the current Win32Lib is anything to go by ... a very major project.

I guess its also I bit disappointing that the current direction of Euphoria
is towards Linux cross development.

I believe an amazing amount of interest and new users would be gained by having
more Windows functionality.  I have looked for quiet some time for alternatives
for the Visual Basic, Visual C++ and Delphi products and Euphoria is the
best alternative I have found.
Some good tools / libraries would make a great difference.

Possibly these tools and libraries will appear, but with the current push
towards Linux probably not for quiet some time.

Anyway sorry to bore everyone, I'm not being negative towards Euphoria ...
some people say if the shoe doesn't fit, try another shoe.

Happy Euphoring

Ray Smith