[Gambas-user] (no subject)

[Mathias Maes]

Hello,

Gambas is great, but there is one small thing why it isn't widly used. No
cross-platform.
Well, I know only a little bit of the inner workings of Gambas, but:

I've been looking to a lot of event-driven Basic dialects, and the best
one, that was most widely useable: RealBasic.
Why? Just because it one-click compiles to Windows/Mac/Linux. Altough,
porting everything to Windows/Mac is not realistic and not desirable.

This is just my opinion, so any comments are most welcome. A short list:

-Porting the Gambas IDE to Windows/Mac is pointless. Why?
In general, Windows developers don't care about Linux users, we just don't
have enough buying potentional. (Mac development is on the rise, because
Mac is just more and more mainstream).
Even if they want to, those languages just already excist for a long time,
there is no reason why those few developers would switch.

-Gambas is interpreted, so just porting the interpreter would do the job?
Now a little question to Benoït, how long would it take to port the
interpreter to Win (and/or Mac), if you make an estimated guess.

If we all support a small donation, maybe we could hire a freelancer, who
ports the interpreter.

Any comments?
Thank you for reading