PureBASIC to the next level?

[Trond]

Just a mock-up - totally unofficial. Sorry about your name.

[djes]

(My apologies for my poor english)
If I were Fred, I don't want to see my langage so widespread that I can't control it further. It's its baby... Making it a pure commercial product means that he'll have to deal with commercials obligations. He'll loose pleasure to develop it, for sure.

Imagine that a big company find a really boring bug or documentation mistake, and that a small set of forum developpers request a new cool feature. What will he have to do first? By now, he's taking time (and I'm sure personal) to answer both equally.

Of course, its life could be simpler if he had more customers. But then PB would not be its coolest creation, but just a boring job.

In France, a lot of people have this way of thinking. It's called "art de vivre" (art of living? way of life?), where personal occupations (friends, house, food!) have their place before job and money. Creation is part of this, an idea is developped the farthest it could be, and after a while taking off, but often stolen by commercials peoples.

[Steve Elliott]

Either way, I still think the game producing features of PureBASIC could be given a higher priority - as well as an updated website.

[djes]

Either way, I still think the game producing features of PureBASIC could be given a higher priority - as well as an updated website.

Contradictory brain : +1

[Steve Elliott]

What? Pursued even if not promoted - ideal would be both.

My point is, why is the games production side not being pursued or promoted? - Steve Elliott

[Psychophanta]

Agree with djes,
and i'd like to add:
who cares if PB is more or less known? who cares if people think PureBasic will die off and so on? etc etc.
Please answer to that question after thinking it very well.
The only think i considere is people who are looking for some language like PB and haven't found it yet. However, now exist google, so they have very easy. Today we can say that in the developed countries, those who don't know is due they don't want to know.
And well, i don't care not even a bit if PB is more or less known, i only care to have my copy, to be registered as active user, to help to make PB to be better and better, reporting bugs, etc, and to develop with it.

[mskuma]

Why is Delphi so widespread? Because of the TurboPascal legacy?

At the time, Delphi was a revolution in programming, and it did that completely independently from its core language. It essentially provided a VB-like environment (event-based Rapid Application Development programming model), but the key thing was it gave developers a means to produce stand-alone exes (unlike VB) and being a non-Microsoft tool also had a certain appeal. Both these points (exe & non-MS) also align with PB of course. Delphi also promoted a very strong coupling of the IDE with the developer - basically without the IDE you felt naked. I am not a user of Delphi - I used to use C++Builder (the C version of Delphi).

I've used several languages and tools, and I agree with Kale - I feel that PB is the most productive language & tool I've used. Like Delphi, I quite like my 'dependance' on the IDE, which is evident by coding with the AutoComplete feature. With this, I feel a real sense of control, direction and 'safety' during the coding process. I love the fact you can cut & paste code into another window & run it immediately without saving. Little things like that really add to the productivity aspect of PB. It's a little bit hard to market that kind of personal realisation of a tool's worth until you actually use it and see it for yourself.

[Steve Elliott]

It would be interesting to hear Freds thoughts on the future of PureBASIC.

Now application writing using PureBASIC seems to have been achieved, would the priority shift to games production not seem like a good idea? Even if it's a case of simply adding and optimizing a few graphics commands.

[Andre]

Fred knows about the sense of marketing (you can read more about this in the interview with him on www.PureArea.net) - so more stuff like the mentioned game making possibilities must be shown on an updated website.

But currently he is busy with the Linux v4 version and also the Mac version must be updated to v4.

After that its a good time to start more marketing...

(Just my thoughts - not the "official" meaning of Fantasie Software)