{"id":41241,"date":"2023-11-27T14:56:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T19:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=41241"},"modified":"2023-11-28T09:16:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T14:16:44","slug":"moving-on-from-xojo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/27\/moving-on-from-xojo\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving on From Xojo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Rowlands<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Since 1998, I’ve built every single Mac app with the Xojo development tool (Aka Real Studio and REALbasic).<\/p>

Over the last ¾ of a decade, Xojo started ignoring bugs, feature requests and industry trends. New features felt rushed, incomplete and sometimes unusable. Dark mode support and concurrency are two prime examples. Something is clearly wrong.<\/p>

Xojo had embarked on a multi-year project of “2.0 All The Things™”. All Xojo customers must now experience learning a new programming language.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

In a few short years, Xojo turned their most evangelical, enthusiastic, knowledgable, experienced and loyal customers, into enemies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Bob Keeney<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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One of the topics that I brought up was that these issues (the new Event names and marking anything from API 1.0 Deprecated – even though they’ll be around for a many years to come) were brought up early and often in the beta program. I said that honestly, it made us feel that our input is not valued.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

I’ve been around a long time and have remained friends with some of those former Xojo developers. Some leave because of long-term bugs. It is disheartening to report a bug that affects your app that gets ignored for years on end.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Some leave because there is a lack of capabilities in the product. iOS (but also true for all targets) is painfully lacking in capabilities that force you into learning complex declares. There are no built-in controls for Date, Time, Timestamp, or numbers only Text Fields, exporting to PDF, no ability for applications to have a report editor, a good grid, etc. Some of this is because Xojo is the lowest common denominator between Mac, Windows, and Linux (for desktop) and doing these things cross-platform is really hard.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Alain Bailleul<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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When I first started this blog, I was a huge fan of RB. The familiar VB6 syntax was what me attracted to it in the first place. I had a VB6 background, and with Microsoft abandoning it, RB was a nice alternative.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

But because of Xojos decision a couple of years ago to start using a new syntax framework, most of these projects won’t work anymore without a major overhaul. So I feel it is time to let them go.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n