I haven't used LiveCode for the last 3 to 4 years. I gave up trying to get it to work as expected. The LC display of its tool bars and palettes were horribly misaligned and I could not get a fix from this forum or LC. It worked fine with a single monitor but not two monitors with one in portrait mode.
Long before that bug I could not get any help resolving an issue where my iPhone would not produce any audio from my LC apps, yet other iPhone apps produced audio just fine (VLC for example). After months of struggle it turned out that LC would not play my music if the audio toggle switch on side of the iPhone was turned off. No one on this forum nor LC support, could resolve that issue. I stumbled upon the fix myself months later. Lack of professional competent support on this and other forums and from LiveCode, is a major reason LC is not deemed a viable programming language.
HOWEVER, the primary reason I quit using LC is that it does not have an open source free version that I can use to create apps for desktop and iOS and Android, which I can use to create commercial applications which—only I have the rights to, rather than donate all my hard work freely to the world. So I turned to learning Python, which I can use FREE to create apps for desktops and mobile, for both Mac & Windows.
Why is LiveCode not recognized more? Because it's not really free for professional app development. Of the top 20 programming languages in use, see https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/, only two of them require payment for the right to develop commercially licensed applications. LiveCode is not even among the top 100 languages listed on TIOBE. For me, the main reason to reject LiveCode is that I cannot use it for any serious software devopment other than a personal project. It's just not ready for use in the commercial world where there are free languages, such as Python, that I can use for profit and not just for play.
Long before that bug I could not get any help resolving an issue where my iPhone would not produce any audio from my LC apps, yet other iPhone apps produced audio just fine (VLC for example). After months of struggle it turned out that LC would not play my music if the audio toggle switch on side of the iPhone was turned off. No one on this forum nor LC support, could resolve that issue. I stumbled upon the fix myself months later. Lack of professional competent support on this and other forums and from LiveCode, is a major reason LC is not deemed a viable programming language.
HOWEVER, the primary reason I quit using LC is that it does not have an open source free version that I can use to create apps for desktop and iOS and Android, which I can use to create commercial applications which—only I have the rights to, rather than donate all my hard work freely to the world. So I turned to learning Python, which I can use FREE to create apps for desktops and mobile, for both Mac & Windows.
Why is LiveCode not recognized more? Because it's not really free for professional app development. Of the top 20 programming languages in use, see https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/, only two of them require payment for the right to develop commercially licensed applications. LiveCode is not even among the top 100 languages listed on TIOBE. For me, the main reason to reject LiveCode is that I cannot use it for any serious software devopment other than a personal project. It's just not ready for use in the commercial world where there are free languages, such as Python, that I can use for profit and not just for play.
Statistics: Posted by smelly — Sat Jun 15, 2024 9:36 pm