[Gambas-user] Happy new year 2024!

[Gianluigi]

Hi,

Is it so tiring to answer from below?
However, I agree with what Jussi wrote.

Happy 2024
Gianluigi

Il 03/01/24 00:43, Jussi Lahtinen ha scritto:
> Over the years I have tried to recommend and advertise Gambas. Usually 
> people who are interested are the ones who were using Visual Basic. If 
> they didn't hear about Gambas on time, then I think most of them 
> adopted some completely different language. Mostly Python..? That was 
> also one of my options back then, but idiotic things like whitespace 
> as syntax kept me away from it. And some people *still* insist that it 
> is a good thing, as it forces good indentation. In Gambas that 
> "problem" is fixed in a second by a click of a button on the IDE. No 
> need for daily suffering for it. Then pip, conda, etc... what a mess, 
> none of them offer a simple, reliably working system. Did I mention 
> that Python is also slow? And does it still lack decent GUI building 
> tools, anything even close to what Gambas IDE has?
>
> It's a cross platform language which supports Windows. I think that is 
> probably the only reason (and irrelevant to me) why it was so widely 
> adopted. And now it has a huge community, which offers reliability for 
> its long term success, lots of libraries, etc benefits. So, in some 
> parts the ship has sailed. However, Gambas really can have a bright 
> future, simply because it is great. I think for the needed wider 
> audience, Gambas would need native support for Android or some other 
> other popular OS.
> Not necessarily a fun task.
>
>
> Jussi
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 5:16 PM Benoît Minisini 
> <benoit.minisini at gambas-basic.org> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Let's start the new year with an article that quotes Gambas:
>
>     https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/the-ides-we-had-30-years-ago-and
>
>     « Let’s forget about the past and look at what we have today in
>     TUI-land. I don’t want to look at GUIs because… well, Visual Basic
>     was
>     the pinnacle of graphics programming and we don’t have that either
>     anymore—which is also a topic for another day. (Well, OK, you have
>     Gambas… but who knows about it?) »
>
>     Mmmm... I know that nobody knows about Gambas, but apparently the
>     main
>     quality of a language seems to be how many people know about it.
>     How a
>     quantity could be a quality?
>
>     Anyway, I wish everyone an happy new year, and a lot of graces for
>     you
>     and your relatives.
>
>     Best regards,
>
>     -- 
>     Benoît Minisini.
>
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