Thoughts on the situation of PB

[purenet]

Hello all,

I think PB is going in a good direction now because:

- ARM support is in the development, I guess we may see it in next year or maybe some test version earlier
- This year 2020 is a bug fix year as Fred stated in some forum message. There has been "spotty" bug fixing in my opinion,
but it's really good to fix more bugs what the community reported. I never faced much bugs but overall stability and robustness is always good.
- There is now much more UI gadgets available to create modern UI's. See the "Applications - Feedback and Discussion" forum.
Especially Thorsten1867 created a big set of UI modules and shared those with the community (thanks!). Others too shared great code and modules, I can't mention all of you.

For me the biggest drawback is the lack of TLS support in the network library (client and server side) This is a must for people who want to code own servers and protocols. For you perhaps something different.

Personally I just today supported the PB development by purchasing one more license. If more people do this we can help PB to grow and evolve even better!

purenet

[camille]

ARM support is in the development

Is there any official statement about that?

[Kiffi]

ARM support is in the development

Is there any official statement about that?

https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewto ... 57#p553357

[Kuron]

Especially Thorsten1867 created a big set of UI modules and shared those with the community (thanks!).

Fangles needs to build a statue in his honor.

[camille]

Thanks @Kiffi

[Thorium]

For me the biggest drawback is the lack of TLS support in the network library (client and server side) This is a must for people who want to code own servers and protocols. For you perhaps something different.

I agree. The way i go around that right now is to run my PureBasic server programs with FastCGI via Apache. So i get TLS. Obviously not applicable in all situations. But that is how i use PB these days.

[purenet]

For me the biggest drawback is the lack of TLS support in the network library (client and server side) This is a must for people who want to code own servers and protocols. For you perhaps something different.

I agree. The way i go around that right now is to run my PureBasic server programs with FastCGI via Apache. So i get TLS. Obviously not applicable in all situations. But that is how i use PB these days.

I have used Stunnel to connect securely to my PureBasic server programs. It's not optimal, but works as a workaround solution.
If have native TLS solution in the future, then can build a TLS capable server in one EXE file.
Generic servers are complex and big projects to implement, but application specific servers are fast to develop because no need to implement hundreds of features to satisfy everyones needs.