when it's named "LiveCode" but somehow becomes easier when it's renamed "Xavvi".
Well, if that is ALL that the LiveCode people have done [renamed 'LiveCode'], then 'Xavvi' is not 'savvy' at all, just a con.
Frankly, the change of name from 'Runtime Revolution' to 'LiveCode' did nothing to me, and I wonder if there was a sudden uptake in people buying licences {I doubt it]. When my mother got married to my father she changed her name from McIntosh to Mathewson [well, she had been brought up in England - in Scotland, traditionally, married women do NOT change their family name], but she did not change: so, LiveCode changing its name should fool no-one: let's see if the product changes: after all, if not that will be the 3rd (or 4th) time that company will have pulled a fast one.
I spent quite a lot of time pointing out that LC (the company formerly known as 'Runtime Revolution') were, frankly, wasting its time pursuing the chimaera of an HTML 'thing': their first effort was crap, and so was (is?) their second one.
I spent quite a lot of time pointing out that LC (the company formerly known as 'Runtime Revolution') were, frankly, wasting its time pursuing FileMaker people.
AS to ANdroid and iOS: well, I, for one would NOT use LiveCode to deevlop for either of those families of devices as the 'fiddling around' seems endless.
Instead of going blue in the face trying to 'smuggle' a quart of desktop LivCode into the pint of a telephone, I'd far rather spend my time getting to grips with one of those development environments that goes straight to the target devices.
I spent quite a lot of time pointing out that LC (the company formerly known as 'Runtime Revolution') would get better results if it focussed on ironing out the hundreds of bugs that have been sitting around in RR/LC like encysted staphylococcus since about RR 2. something-or-other.
I pointed out that by not sorting out those bugs and the resultant constant use of 'work-arounds' in the forums and on the use-list LC was generating bad, bad PR for itself.
AND: I got lots of 'flak' because of my constantly 'negative' attitude: Well 'screw you', that 'negative attitude' consisted of a series of observations about things that stuck out of the LC website and their cavalier attitude to their much-vaunted 'community' like a syphilitic nose.
Had the overgrown adolescent (and we all know who that is) deigned to listen to anyone [and now, like some tuppeny-happeny guru, he is preaching about 'mentoring' - having previously mentioning that he has had mental problems] listened (whether to me, or the (possibly) more diplomatic voices saying the same thing) there might be no 'Xavvi' until LC itself was completely 'savvy': which it most certainly is NOT at the moment.
The sad truth is that 'all those voices' saying 'slow down and retrench' were the voices of people who, while not developing LiveCode, were using it in one capacity or another in their daily lives.
COMMUNITY
When I lived in the United States (1993 - 1996) I found that, unlike in European countries, in shops the people who worked there ALWAYS listened very carefully to what their customers wanted: this impressed me no end (and it did about 3 years ago when I went shopping in Philadelphia, Chicago and New York - 2 week whistle-stop trip). For all of LiveCode's use of American English spelling, LiveCode, the company doesn't even behave like a Scots company, it behaves like a company somewhere in the Balkans or Egypt [I know, I have lived and worked in both]. As the vast majority of LiveCode's "community' are either from North America, or have been in some way Americani
Zed, the oriental approach of LiveCode will begin to chafe increasingly, resulting in . . .
