News from Mark Sibly regarding Monkey X and BlitzBasic...

[Krix]

Mark Sibly made a statement on his personal blog site saying that Monkey X sales are not as good as he expected.
He'll continue to support Monkey X but big improvements (also mentioned Monkey 2) will put on hold.

He also released the source code of BlitzPlus on github.

Read more here:

http://marksibly.blogspot.ca/
http://monkey-x.com/Community/posts.php ... 548&page=6
http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/pos ... pic=102444

[kenmo]

Interesting... glad he's being honest about the situation, I hope sales come up a bit!

The language has some quirks, but it is pretty nice to write a game and pretty easily generate desktop/browser/Android/iOS versions.

[Fred]

Always interesting reads. Doing new stuffs and experiments isn't easy and I wish good luck to Mark, he deserves it.

ps: 29 years of self doing stuffs is awesome .

[said]

ps: 290 years of Fred doing stuffs is awesome .

Long life PB

[Polo]

This also shows how stable Purebasic has been over the years, still developed after more than 10 years!

[tj1010]

He has a good web design and the concept is very marketable. The pipeline must have too many quirks and/or they don't market enough.

I know there is no shortage of people who want to build native(as in not webview based) apps with fast turn-around.. AGK, Titanium, PhoneGap aren't even competition because of bugs and bad design, people just use them because they are the only option..

If your product fails in popularity and in you're in a niche market, it means you're probably doing something wrong..

[Kuron]

ps: years of Fred doing stuff is awesome .

Infinite life PB!

[TI-994A]

...still developed after more than 10 years!

Coming up to its Sweet Sixteen very soon!