> 1) What are the reasons that moved you to RB?
I write educational software for my physics classes. Before RB, I was
using Pascal, FaceIt, and HyperCard. Development was slow and
painful, and I could not compile to Windows. I switched to RB 2.0,
and immediately enjoyed a *huge* increase in productivity, and (IIRC)
cross-compiling to Windows shortly thereafter.
> 2) What are the reasons that you consider more important for staying
> with RB in the future?
I absolutely depend on cross-compiling these days. It is essential
that my software be able to run on all platforms.
> 3) If for some strange and unknown reason RB were closed. What path
> and tools will you follow instead of RB?
I have no idea: this would be a disaster for me. There may be IDEs
out there now in which I could be as productive after an initial
learning curve (though RB was way ahead of *everything else* when I
first started), but I don't know of any other language with the same
ability to cross-compile.
> 4) What tools or other development environments do you use in
> combination with RB for solving the actual needs of your clients/
> company?
I use RB alone these days (even for my physics research). I have
written a variety of classes (3D, graphing, expression processing,
etc.) that make it very easy for me to develop new software to do
almost anything I need.
Tom Moore
(Physics, Pomona College)
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