Re:Jeff Dean takes over as Google’s AI chief
by vram22 on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:59PM
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>like Borland/Inprise/CodeGear did
By somewhat frequent changes of direction, I mean, at least some of them, particularly during the Inprise years. Like changing focus from dev tools vendor to ALM vendor.
And while I'm guessing, let me add a bit of imagining :) I used to, and still wish, that Google or a company like it would come out with a RAD GUI app creation tool like Delphi (of course better is fine too) and make it cheap or free to use to develop GUI apps with (and then keep supporting and developing it, and not make a mess of it like Borland/Inprise/CodeGear did - at least their management did or seems to have done, based on news read over the years). They definitely have the brainpower / bandwidth for doing such a product. But instead they are web-and-mobile-only (or mostly, AFAIK), unfortunately.