Quote: "im with raven, i think if they want to push the dx requirement up to 9.0c then they might as well make synergy the new ide."
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NOT what I said. My comments are purely about seeing no reason why .NET should be shunned by TGC as a viable Runtime Component given the product it will be backing also requires the most recent DirectX runtime. There is also a good chance that when 9.1 is finally released (with the X-Box 360 at the end of the year) that one again DBP will move to this because of the new features available.
At which point they *will* loose thier Windows 98/ME Support. As DirectX 9.1 only supports Windows NT 5.x
Not to be funny but I've been against this ever becomming the official IDE from the get go. No offense but if someone is going to take the time to make an IDE for DBP, I would prefer it if a) they were actually using the language; something that JohnY doesn't seem to be focusing on doing for well over 2years, and b) would concentrate thier efforts on providing the best experience for THIS language.
JohnY's attention will ALWAYS focus on Omega Basic first, then see about adding the support for DB/P stuff.
Aside from anything else, as I said from the begining just like all programmers there is a complete lack of design sense; which as we've seen with BlueIDE, a number of PROGRAMMERS enjoy the design or lack there-of, people like myself who are not professionally programming.. actually would prefer something that feels user friendly.
Fine, so no I've not been programming for like 20years, I don't know half of the scenes for all of this crap... honestly I don't care either. All I care about is if people are going to continue trying to make an IDE that ONE actually gets done and supported properly.
As of yet this is something we have yet to see. I'm not even talking about TGCs support of the product, I am more speaking here the developer themselves actually giving much of a damn about it past released.
Every single IDE released to date, the original developer post-release have basically tinkered for a few months then left it in an as-is state. It's silly seeing tonnes of feature laden but ultimately buggy and/or slow releases simply to out-do each other.
You know why the Default IDE is still by far the most popular? Because it's simple and to the point; there are some features that would be nice, but on the whole we have something that works and does what we want without having to go through 12-layers of crap of get used to quirks. Anyone can pick it up and instantly know what they're doing.
That is the key to any GOOD application.
