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Not necessarily... I mean, yes, it's a good thing... er... You're basically a one-person operation, and LiveCode is ideal for that. I love the environment and I'm very productive with it, or I wouldn't still be here after 15-odd years. But beyond one-person shops, there are few folks who have heard ...

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Panos just added four new generic Android entries to the list:
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So, WTFF (Why The Flying Fantoushies) is is being adopted faster than you can say 'LiveCode' in educational establishments everywhere while LiveCode is NOT? We used python as a backend processor for crunching lots of data quickly, handing it off to an Angular frontend for web display. Python has th...

Richard- regarding Xojo's web implementation, you create web apps that are compiled to binary code. I haven't played around with the backend database stuff, but there are drivers for a lot of different databases, so you're not limited to storing things on Xojo Cloud. That would be a definite non-sta...

I also have to say I like Xojo's license policy. "All Xojo licenses give you access to new Xojo releases for a 12 month period. After your license expires you may continue to build with any release distributed during that 12 month period, indefinitely. You are never required to renew your Xojo licen...

Xojo for the web is IMHO a much better fit than LC with HTML5. And yes, Android has been just a gleam in someone's eye over at the Xojo team for a long time now. I don't expect to see it any time soon. Richard- I completely agree with the boated submenu thing - just pointing out that it seems Panos ...

Seems like somebody's been paying attention:

https://github.com/livecode/livecode-ide/pull/2138

True. Not getting judgy here, I do wish there were a good alternative to LiveCode out there, just to hedge bets. One thing I learned early on in doing hardware designs is "never use single-source components". But if SuperCard can't build 64-bit applications, who's going to keep using it? Maybe they ...

Update:"we haven't thought about that" was a bit harsh, yes. I obviously don't know SuperCard's code base. But complaining about being blindsided by Apple now after the horse has already left the stall, when they've had years to gear up for this seems a bit disingenuous.

Could say the same about LiveCode's engine source. It takes will to make a massive change like that. LiveCode's team made the effort. Yes, SuperCard can run in Parallels in 32-bit mode, but that doesn't help deliver 64-bit apps.

Meanwhile... version 1.3 of TwisterOS just became available

https://raspbian-x.com/

Yep - that's my reading. LiveCode made the decision some time back to rewrite the OSX underpinnings from Carbon to Cocoa and thus future-proof the environment for 64-bit operating systems. Carbon was only supposed to be a compatibility bridge from older OS8 and OS9 programs into OSX in the first pla...

While I do understand the urge to tilt at those windmills, as Richmond says HC and LC are different beasts. If you do get this thing working (and I have no doubt you'll manage it) you'll probably find that the action is slower in LiveCode than in HyperCard because swapping cards is inefficient in LC...

Ha! BackgroundPattern! Brilliant!