Now there's the first really sensible question I seen for a long, long time.Has he found a compiler that will let you mix all those languages in source files, and produce a single executable?
I'll ask him.
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Now there's the first really sensible question I seen for a long, long time.Has he found a compiler that will let you mix all those languages in source files, and produce a single executable?
Elsewhere I have been in discussions with someone who has spent the past two years learning (full-time) to be a web developer. After all that time he still stumbles over basic problems in Javascript and CSS (I see him report on the HOURS he has spent trying to find out where he's going wrong). In 20 years I've never seen someone use LC for 6 months and struggle over the basics.richmond62 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 9:46 amThat's not true at all.The LCS forums are littered with people struggling through problems that simply don't exist in good languages.
The LCS forums are full of messages asking for help because LiveCode, unlike a lot of other languages,
can be learnt largely by oneself (no textbooks, no nothing), but a little help does tend to accelerate things.
I have a friend who wants to learn to become good at playing basketball.mrcoollion wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 11:25 amEven with LC you need to learn what is possible and how which takes time and perseverance in any language.
Let me add to this. The man I'm talking about has written a training course on how to learn Javascript. But after two years he still hasn't learned how to use a debugger. Why? My guess is that there is already so much complexity with differentBrowsers + html + js + css + node packages + someFramework that it was just too much cognitive load to learn something else. With LC so much of the complexity is hidden that the incredibly important skill of debugging is right there in the IDE - it's literally one of the words at the top of the Script Editor. I had to Google just to find out if Safari had any debugger and if so how to enable it. For those who don't understand the benefits of a debugger, they wouldn't look for it.Bernard wrote: ↑Sat Oct 24, 2020 12:14 pmElsewhere I have been in discussions with someone who has spent the past two years learning (full-time) to be a web developer. After all that time he still stumbles over basic problems in Javascript and CSS (I see him report on the HOURS he has spent trying to find out where he's going wrong). In 20 years I've never seen someone use LC for 6 months and struggle over the basics.
Because there are a lot of jobs for it. Compare that to the number of jobs where they ask LC.Bernard wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 11:11 amIn the UK we have companies springing up charging novices a year of full-time university tuition for a 6 month part-time course in web development. Or to put that another way - these novices are paying for 15 years of a LC indy license for a part-time course. If Javascript is so easy, why would people pay that much money to learn it?
Seems like there should be at least one more on that list. JavaScript for Automation (JXA) is supposed to be a full fledged OSA scripting language on macOS since 10.10 Yosemite. Also I would think any 3rd party OSA installed should show up, if there still were any others (I beleive Frontier UserTalk is long dead).richmond62 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 11, 2020 5:23 pm-the host-OS-provided options returned with the alternateLanguages function
Well, yeah:
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What are you building with LiveCode?juliadavid wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 8:05 amI want to learn ReactJS JavaScript front-end framework. Which platform is good to learn this? React also have a tutorial section on its official website. So is it okay to learn from there or if you suggest any good practical platform? Please guide me about this!