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Well, well, well . . . the Single Window IDE idea (from 9 years ago!) has been taken out
and dusted off and talked about:

https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=36960

I wonder if it will materialise?

[OK, OK, Richmond, smack your hand hard, you nasty cynical whatsit.]

Mind you, I am not stumping up the moolah to pay for a conference.

I have always felt that a commercial company that is trying to attract customers should
not be expecting either existing or potential customers to pay for a conference.

I attended a LiveCode conference in Edinburgh where they promised all sorts of
jazzy things, which, a bit like the Kickstarter things, never materialised.

Out of all the survey ratings so far 0.45% have said “ok” or “not great”. That means 99.55% of you have been happy or very happy .

https://livecode.com/reporting-on-day-1 ... onference/

Even I, having not looked at statistics for 45 years know. that is nonsense.

Why do they keeping getting things so badly wrong when they have such a f*cking magic product?

richmond62 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 24, 2022 7:55 am 2013:
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The last line is instructive.

I donated money, twice.

Funnily enough, I have always understood 'will' to mean 100% and not 'if the fancy takes us'
or an empty promise to attract money.

They did start to do some of that IDE GUI stuff but never really completed it, and then the IDE side of it seem to languish for a bunch of years. If you look at the GitHub for the IDE part (vs the Engine) with GitHub's activity graph you can see the IDE didn't get much attention after the first few years and most development activity was to the engine or working on some other ambitious promises (some of which was also never completed).

But I am grateful for what they've left in the xTalk communities' hands ... lots of possibilities.