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I’ve been a member of the Xojo community for nearly twenty years. In that time I’ve seen a lot of people join the community, become fantastic contributors, and then suddenly leave the community. There are a lot of reasons developers would leave the community but I thought I’d capture some of them.
Xojo scratches an itch and if the developer no longer has the need to scratch that itch they use a tool that scratches their next itch. Xojo is great for cross-platform applications but certainly less so if you need only a Mac or only a Windows application. Xojo’s strength is cross-platform which means compromises in abilities and controls so I can understand people wanting a pure Windows or MacOS application. Apple and Microsoft have large developer communities that are attractive.
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The Rapid Release Program held much promise when it was introduced many years ago. Xojo went from two big monolithic releases a year to three, four or more releases per year. Sure, Xojo fixes a ton of stuff in each release but they also seem to break stuff in each release. I know we have a list of verboten releases for various platforms and it gives the impression of a perpetual beta status for Xojo. I have been a big fan of releases that are almost all bug fixes with no new features but those are pretty rare.
Xojo is a modern object oriented language and is quite powerful but it’s not a popular language. Many developers have never heard of Xojo. There is no standards committee that adds features to the language and the language itself is closed source. If there was a standards committee I suspect there would be some serious language additions done sooner rather than later. It certainly would have given much more forethought into API 2.0 and how it would affect the existing user base and the documentation done long before any coding started.
Xojo isn’t like any other development tool I’ve ever used. It’s great that it doesn’t allow a developer to make a stupid mistake when declaring a method. It forces you to use the Xojo IDE user interface to do everything from creating methods, declaring properties, constants, enums, etc. I’ve never used another developer tool that does this. Xojo pretty much forces you to use it the way they want you to rather than what most other languages do with a text editor. This makes it easier for beginners but if I’m being honest it’s a drag for someone like me that (usually) knows what they are doing. Forcing developers into the Xojo-way of doing things makes the IDE seem like a toy at times. It’s certainly slower.
Change does not happen quickly with Xojo. It has a small development staff and I’m always amazed at how much they get done. But it means that it can take an incredibly long time for things to change and become stable. The transition to 64-bit was a huge multi-year project. iOS was a huge multi-year project. Web 2.0 and Android have become huge multi-year projects (with still no idea on when we’ll see them). The new targets might be good eventually but history shows it will take a few releases before they’re really stable. Meanwhile older targets seem to get significantly less attention.
Xojo isn’t really a business development tool. When I say business I mean databases and reports because that’s practically every application we’ve done for the past twenty years. Doing database development in Xojo is NOT Rapid Application Development (RAD) because you have to deal with everything database related yourself and the IDE and compiler give you zero help. Reports are simplistic and aren’t exceptionally powerful and there’s no way for an end user to create or edit reports. There’s a reason why BKeeney Software has its own database Object Relation Model (ORM) classes and reporting tools and classes because we have to use them in nearly every project we do for clients.
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In addition to all that it’s really missing some things that business users need. The TextArea control has pitiful RTF support, there is no built-in calendar, date, or time controls. The built-in grid (Listbox) is more powerful than many people give it credit for but cannot hold native controls and can be very slow with large data sets. There is no PDF read or write support either. There are 3rd party options for all of these things but something lightweight would go a long way to supporting new business users.
These are a few of my thoughts. What am I missing about developers that leave Xojo? And is there a way to stop them from moving away from Xojo? What are they doing to?
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