15+ years programming, Java, Salesforce, SQL Server and even Macromedia Director Lingo and VB6 . Some web development in PHP.
Based on what I see of the license, If I go ‘Desktop’ and want another database, I pay $400 + $300 for database connectivity beyoned SQLITE?
If true, then when I decide to develop web applications, I’ll pay for the ‘web’ version?
So it seems to be it’s best to pay the $995? (of course you will say yes!) I paid that for Director, so I can dig into the pocket, but I need you to pan out.
. . . Semi technical before I start cracking books …
Briefly, can you supply some info here. No thesis necessary.
CGI. Fast or regular? If regular, any way to go Fast CGI?
HTTPS? Secure login?
Session management?
Native iPad timeframe still on target?
I have an iPad and an Android phone. Plans for Android?
I’m curious about the decision to use BASIC. I would think that since the JVM is open source, you would use it. (Salesforce is exact syntax of Java with it’s own libraries).
Appreciate your time. Looks like you guys are going to make me burn some midnight oil? And maybe lighten my pocketbook?
[quote=88129:@Gunnar Swan]* Based on what I see of the license, If I go ‘Desktop’ and want another database, I pay $400 + $300 for database connectivity beyoned SQLITE?
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Desktop is $300 and Database is another $300 so $600 not $700,
That would be another $400
When renewal time comes around it’s 50% of purchase price to get access to new releases for a year.
If you need all the costs then yes… But that then means to renew you have to renew that whole package.
In any case I would suggest trying to do small but non trivial sample projects with desktop and web with it before purchase to make sure it meets your needs/expectations.
I can’t help on web stuff.
Take any timeframe talk as estimates subject to significant change.
From what they have said not at this time… they have a lot on their plate right now!
Xojo started life out as CrossBASIC in 1998 as shareware before it went commercial as REALBasic.
For X-Platform desktop and for web apps if you don’t know a lot of web technologies, it is a good tool and one can be very productive with it.
But like every tool it has it’s own set of limitations and frustrations. I have been using it for over 12 years for in-house apps and I keep renewing, so for me what it does well makes it worth it.
I agree with Karen. You can use Xojo for free so you can test it all you want. If you want to compile your app then you’ll need the paid license. Try before you buy.
As far as “why BASIC”… I’d ask “why not”. A programming language is exactly that … a language used to express logic and process flow in a human understandable means which can be converted to a executable for user by a computer.
Sure you will get those that will say that X is better than Y etc… but then by the same token… Is English better than French or German better than Spanish?
Long gone are the days when BASIC was “B.A.S.I.C - Beginners AllPurpose Symbolic Instruction Code”… and XOJO is far from being a basic (ie. simplistic) language.
. Some web development in PHP.