Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects
by MadcapJake on Friday May 06, 2022 @07:36AM
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There is some work going into a new RAD tool that will support 3 and 4. https://gitlab.gnome.org/jpu/cambalache
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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects
by zozbot234 on Friday May 06, 2022 @07:39AM
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The Linux desktop's CADT syndrome strikes again. Why not just pick up maintenance of Glade itself? Why do we get this constant churn?
Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects
by anthk on Friday May 06, 2022 @09:03AM
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>Linux
More like Gnome and RedHat. In the BSD-y world and people akin on GNU (Alpine, Hyperbola, Parabola...) people loves the CLI and some stuff like TCL/TK or even Perl/Tk / Perl/GTK2. And the tools work well and fast enough.
Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects
by supercheetah on Friday May 06, 2022 @05:35PM
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Glade had a lot of problems, and core Gnomes devs really recommended against it[1]. I think that dev for Cambalache didn't want to try to figure that out.
1. https://blogs.gnome.org/christopherdavis/2020/11/19/glade-no...
Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects
by pjmlp on Saturday May 07, 2022 @04:58AM
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Writing XML by hand to provide it to GtkBuilder is so much better. /s
Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects
by MadcapJake on Friday May 06, 2022 @11:53AM
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If I had to guess I would say: more fun to develop a new system without any legacy code maintenance (GTK4 is a significant change in API). The idea with the new tool is to decouple the toolkit too so it will be fundamentally more resilient to churn.
Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects
by pjmlp on Friday May 06, 2022 @07:54AM
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A tool that uses Electron like technology (Merengue) to display what are supposed to be native widgets, and without guarantee that its development is actually going to be supported, long term.