[Gambas-user] New website design in beta version

[Kevin Fishburne]

On 10/27/2015 06:37 AM, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> Am 26.10.2015 15:49, schrieb Benoît Minisini:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have uploaded a beta version of a new website design at:
>>
>> http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/test.html
>>
>> You still have to login both on the wiki and the bugtracker, but the
>> accounts are the same.
>>
>> The all contents is now stored in the wiki, so updates and translations
>> will be easier.
>>
>> Only the top header needs to be translated through the "MakeWebSite"
>> project located in '/trunk/app/others'. And the arabic version layout
>> needs polishing too.
>>
>> I'm waiting for your comments and suggestions now... :-)
>>
> Great new look! I love it!
>
> Just some spontaneous thoughts I had:
>
> Do you insist on making this comparison with VB? What do you think about
> "an IDE as easy as VB and a language as powerful as Java" or something
> like that?
>
> "english teacher" - the "E" should be a capital.

It does look awesome. My two cents on the VB thing... Based on my 
conversations with other programmers and what I've seen/read elsewhere 
there are a lot of programmers who think any BASIC dialect is shit, not 
a real programming language, and generally something to be laughed at 
and avoided. There are also programmers who liked Visual Basic (or at 
least the "promise" of it), and are seeking a more modern alternative:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic

"In 2014 there are tens of thousands of developers who still prefer 
Visual Basic 6.0 over Visual Basic .NET. Moreover, in recent years some 
developers lobbied aggressively for a new version of Visual Basic 6.0."

Based on the FLOSS weekly interview and conversations with a programmer 
friend of mine, the prejudice against BASIC is so strong they have 
difficulty accepting the power and elegance of Gambas. So I guess the 
real question here is does comparing it to Visual Basic push more people 
away than it brings in.

I like Rolf-Werner's "an IDE as easy as VB and a language as powerful as 
Java". I also think it might be a good idea to create a demonstration 
video, upload it to YouTube and embed it in the front page. When people 
see with their own eyes the IDE, available components and just how 
quickly an application can be built it will say more than any tagline 
ever could. Like the allure of an infomercial they'll see themselves 
using it that way before they've even installed it.

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